The Endless RaceThe Endless Race

Her brother had been sober from heroin for nearly four years. She thought he was finally in the clear. But when filmmaker Jen Karson-Strauss discovers he’s relapsed, her world fractures — leaving her to confront the ache of grief, fear, and the relentless uncertainty of loving someone in addiction. Searching for understanding, Jen turns to what she knows best: storytelling. Determined to humanize a crisis so often buried beneath shame and statistics, she begins documenting a group of recovering addicts and their families as they train for the New York City Marathon — each step a metaphor for endurance, relapse, and renewal. But as Jen witnesses their struggles and resilience, her own story begins to surface. The boundaries between filmmaker and subject blur, and the project transforms into an unflinching exploration of addiction’s ripple effects — the quiet toll it takes on those who love, lose, and try to save. What begins as a film about recovery becomes a personal reckoning — a journey toward acceptance, forgiveness, and the fragile hope that healing, like sobriety, is a race that never truly ends.more

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The Endless Race

Her brother had been sober from heroin for nearly four years. She thought he was finally in the clear. But when filmmaker Jen Karson-Strauss discovers he’s relapsed, her world fractures — leaving her to confront the ache of grief, fear, and the relentless uncertainty of loving someone in addiction. Searching for understanding, Jen turns to what she knows best: storytelling. Determined to humanize a crisis so often buried beneath shame and statistics, she begins documenting a group of recovering addicts and their families as they train for the New York City Marathon — each step a metaphor for endurance, relapse, and renewal. But as Jen witnesses their struggles and resilience, her own story begins to surface. The boundaries between filmmaker and subject blur, and the project transforms into an unflinching exploration of addiction’s ripple effects — the quiet toll it takes on those who love, lose, and try to save. What begins as a film about recovery becomes a personal reckoning — a journey toward acceptance, forgiveness, and the fragile hope that healing, like sobriety, is a race that never truly ends.

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