Hymns of You | Synopsis
A minister takes a sabbatical to recover from his divorce.
Love and Walt Whitman set him on a collision
course between his faith and the church.
“I just want to make it right again,” Scott Fairchild muses to his friends. Scott, a 35-year-old minister,
is obsessed with getting it right.
Scott has taken a year’s sabbatical from the church to recover from the blow of his divorce. He grudgingly
downs anti-depressants to “disconnect my brain from my divorce”. He feels like a failure as a husband and
minister.
Daniel, Alex, and Harrison, Scott’s childhood friends, re-connect with him during this time of transition.
Each is made more aware of his own emotional and spiritual challenges as they try to keep Scott’s spirits up.
Alex is a chronic womanizer, Harrison struggles to keep his marriage alive,
And Daniel, Scott’s closest friend, has a secret life.
In a moment of anguish, Scott tears up his Bible. Instead of lightening strikes from the heavens, the act
seems to summons two new “angels” into his life: the ghost of Walt Whitman and Susan, a beautiful
psychologist.
After Daniel presents Scott with a book of Whitman’s poetry around a campfire, Scott believes he glimpses
Whitman several times on his camping trip. Soon Scott is having regular conversations with Whitman’s
ghost about love, faith, and spirit. Whitman’s bold and poetic pronouncements help empower Scott to
embark on a new romance with Susan, who challenges his idea of what “good” and “right” really mean.
Meanwhile behind the scenes, Daniel’s ex-wife, who works at the church, is snooping around with her friend
Mary. What is Daniel’s dark secret? Scott has moved in with Daniel, and now she is suspicious of them
both, and wants to collect evidence that Scott is unfit to return to the church.
When Scott is accused of conduct unbecoming by the church, his ordination is threatened. Will he be able
to reconcile his new life with his ministry? Will the church decide he no longer is wanted?
Hymns of You tells the story of a minister who is on a collision course between his faith and the church.
Sometimes Grace comes from the most Earthy places.
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