Grace Is Gone

Stanley answers the front door. Two uniformed soldiers inform him that his wife Grace has been killed during military service in Iraq. (0:07)

Stanley cries in his room in his childhood home. (0:31)

Stanley's daughter Heidi meets a young man who tells her the woman with whom she saw him at the motel pool was "an autistic woman. I take care of her for money." (0:45)

Heidi and Stanley discuss her insomnia. (0:47)

Stanley leaves a voicemail message for Grace on their home answering machine. He tells her, "It should have been me." (1:01)

Stanley tells Heidi and her sister Dawn that their mother was killed in Iraq. (1:15)

Heidi speaks at a memorial service for her mother. (1:19)

Bereavement | survivor guilt