The film tells a sorrowful story of a timber baron and his new bride in North Carolina, spanning 1929 to 1930. As the Depression begins, Pemberton (Bradley Cooper) brings his wife to his logging operation in the Smokey Mountains (Jennifer Lawrence), and she quickly demonstrates her ability to hold her own with the workers. She adjusts to life there, but deception soon emerges. "Serena” was filmed in 2012 but wa…