At the Feet of Serenity

In 1934 Grace photographed her favorite statue, a national monument named Serenity. Throughout six decades Serenity's destruction, caused by vandals, parallels the adversities of Grace's five motherless children. The Clayland family carries the burden of the message. Destruction in the Clayland family comes just as it comes to many families struggling to make everything right in a world full of mistrust, selfishness and defiance. Social injustice weighs heavily upon Henry, the widower; and Derek, his divorced son. Derek separates from his family and society to embrace a polygamous sect splintered from Mormonism. A demented statue makes a statement.