The Church of The Lighted Window

Kyle Getty is admitted by court order to Fallbrooke Mental Institution after brutally assaulting a stranger on the street and then turning on the police officers who arrived to stop the attack. With no prior criminal history, and no sound reason for his behavior, his plea deal with the court has saved him from prison time, but not from required time away from public life and a thorough psychiatric evaluation.

Once at Fallbrooke, Kyle tries to understand what has led him to this point, since the normal challenges of life do not come close to explaining the severity of his mental breakdown or the violence he displayed. With the help of his therapist, Katie Clements, he delves deeper into himself, sorting through his wounds and the metrics of his pain.

Devastated, Kyle leans on the spiritual faith he’d long ago abandoned. In doing so, he finds that God never abandoned him. Unable to hide in the habits and distractions of daily life, and with the help of professional therapy, Kyle comes face to face with what has really brought him to Fallbrooke: the unresolved grief over the death of his father, and then many years later, his mother.