After a childless older couple rescues him off the Detroit streets, a horrifically-abused teenager grows into an emotionally-hardened man who struggles to accept he’s worth loving.

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What would you do if you had survived a childhood of such horrific abuse and neglect that you had lost your human connection?

A 15-year-old hustles on the Detroit streets. Stick-thin, hollow-cheeked, and hard-eyed, he’ll claw anyone who comes near him. His one goal? Survival. When an older childless couple finds him and takes him into their home — and into their hearts — they try to chisel their way into his. And chisel they must. This boy shoves away anyone who tries to love him, because love has only ever hurt. The couple just wants to give him a family, a support system, and to give him a safe place to fall. But the thick emotional armor he’s encased around himself simply won’t allow him to accept anything, until it just might be too late. Nothing makes sense. Everyone might as well be speaking to him in riddles. Will he take the risk to really live and find his identity before it’s too late?

“Finding the Path”, a mash-up of the films Ordinary People and Shame, challenges emotions and asks the big question: what exactly is a person worth?

FINDING THE PATH