Alongside their Mormon brethren, the Steed family moves west in response to religious persecution. Faced with ostracism and violence because of their beliefs, the Steeds struggle to hold their family together amid their own crises of faith. Sam Hennings, Brenda Strong, Eric Johnson and Alexander Carroll star in this stirring historical drama tracing the origins of the Mormon church, the second installment in novelist Gerald N. Lund's epic saga.