In the quiet ache of a fading Midwestern town, sixteen-year-old Ethan Carter fills the pages of his weathered sketchbook with the fragments of a faith he no longer recognizes. His parents divorced two years ago and now his mother slips deeper into addiction to pain pills while his father drowns his disappointments in alcohol, leaving Ethan trapped between anger, grief, and the desperate hope that something good can still survive.
When Ethan begins spending afternoons in the garden of a retired pastor, he discovers an unexpected refuge, a place where questions are welcomed more than answers. There, and with Derek, a sharp-witted skeptic who challenges everything Ethan thought he believed, and Jasmine, whose compassion slowly breaks through the walls around his heart, Ethan begins to confront the wounds he has spent years trying to sketch away.
But healing is never simple. As secrets unravel and loyalties are tested, Ethan must decide whether faith is something inherited, abandoned, or rebuilt from the ruins.
Then, at the town’s community art show, Ethan unveils a final drawing: a simple table set for three. Quiet yet defiant, the piece becomes an invitation for the broken, the doubting, and the lonely to sit together, and perhaps discover that redemption begins not with certainty, but with belonging.
Tender, honest, and deeply human, 'Shattered Faith' is a moving coming-of-age story about addiction, friendship, faith, and the courage to keep a seat open for hope.
