40 Years to Heal a Broken Child

The void of an absent father breaks a child’s emotional psyche sending the adolescent into a seemingly never-ending battle of acceptance, and identity issues.  The child struggles with a world of racism, insecurities, and low self-esteem.  That world leads him to crack cocaine and ultimately prison.  


That broken psyche stunts the growth of the child who desperately needs a father’s love and strength, but that father simply never shows up.  The child grows into adulthood and a life of crime where he is ultimately sentenced to prison ironically for a crime he didn’t commit.  It takes six years before he can re-enter society.  The child desperately tries to put back the pieces to his broken life and shattered psyche but only masks his pain with a false ego and machoism.  


Surrounded by those who love him he feels isolated and still longs for the comfort of a father.  Searching for any sort of normalcy it comes to him in the form of a college education and a family he can call his own and the ability to be the father figure that had eluded him his entire life.  He finds a peace knowing his children will never understand what it feels like to long for a father.  The child breaks through and puts the man back together piece by piece.