Taking Lena Home

In 2000, Los Angelesbased artist Alexandra Grant came across a curious object in a Wyoming junk shop: the tombstone of Lena Davis, a baby girl who died in 1880. Inexplicably drawn to the stone, she took it home, where it sat in her studio. Years later, she began a quest to discover the origins of the headstone, a mission that led her all the way to Polk, Nebraska, and an adventure in firsttime filmmaking. TAKING LENA HOME documents the markers return to its rightful place, as well as Grants journey from