Things We Loved Before They Broke

Based on a true story. Names changed. Pain, never forgotten.

Elisha is a girl learning to survive in a world that keeps shifting under her feet. Born into chaos but wrapped in moments of warmth, she grows up in a home where love and pain sit side by side. From the soft hum of her godmother Ma's kitchen to late nights beside Papa Amos watching horror movies on the floor, her early childhood holds a fragile kind of safety.

But that safety doesn't last.

As Elisha is pulled between houses, cities, and people-some kind, some harmful-she learns to carry heavy things in silence. Based on true events, Things We Loved Before They Broke is a fictionalized retelling of one girl's coming-of-age through trauma, resilience, and the tangled beauty of family. Through shifting homes, deep bonds, loss, abuse, survival, and stolen moments of joy, Elisha's story becomes a mirror for anyone who has ever had to grow up too fast-and still found a way to love.