Campo Largo

Elder Travis Hartley is right on track, on the strait and narrow.

Whitetail, Midwestern, 19, he's spent the last six months getting accustomed to life as a Mormon missionary in the South American nation of Paraná.

Now, however, comes a big shift: his mission president has just reassigned Elder Hartley to a small rural town that hasn't hosted missionaries for years. What's more, Elder Hartley will be training a new missionary, fresh from the Missionary Training Center. Both big responsibilities.

Bundled off on a bus beside his brand-new companion, Elder Hartley has his work cut out for him. Starting today, he has to get to know his companion, the local church members, and the town, all while spending ten hours per day in the sweltering January sun trying to find and teach anyone, anyone, who's interested.

That's fine, right? He knows who he is and why he's here. He knows how to be personable, how to preach, how to plan. He's got this. Yeah.

That is, of course, until everything starts to go... off the rails. In unsettling ways. That he can't explain.

What awaits Elder Hartley in Campo Largo?

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Campo Largo takes inspiration from the author's Mormon mission in Argentina. Places, people, and events are also generally inspired by reality, but are often composited and always partly fictionalized.

If Campo Largo were a movie, it would be rated PG-13 for intense themes.