diff --git a/lib/Mojolicious/Plugin/TtRenderer/Engine.pm b/lib/Mojolicious/Plugin/TtRenderer/Engine.pm
index 2e63122..035b8b6 100644
--- a/lib/Mojolicious/Plugin/TtRenderer/Engine.pm
+++ b/lib/Mojolicious/Plugin/TtRenderer/Engine.pm
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ use Mojo::ByteStream 'b';
 use Template ();
 use Cwd qw/abs_path/;
 use Scalar::Util 'weaken';
+use POSIX ':errno_h';
 
 __PACKAGE__->attr('tt');
 
@@ -87,11 +88,26 @@ sub _render {
     my $provider = $self->tt->{SERVICE}->{CONTEXT}->{LOAD_TEMPLATES}->[0];
     $provider->options($options);
     $provider->ctx($c);
-    $provider->not_found(0);
 
-    my $ok = $self->tt->process(defined $inline ? \$inline : $t, @params);
+    my $ok = do {
+        if (defined $inline) {
+            $self->tt->process(\$inline, @params);
+        }
+        else {
+            my @ret = $provider->fetch($t);
 
-    return 0 if $provider->not_found;
+            if (not defined $ret[1]) {
+                $self->tt->process($ret[0], @params);
+            }
+            elsif (not defined $ret[0]) { # not found
+                return 0;
+            }
+            else { # error
+                return 0 if $! == ENOENT && (not ref $ret[0]); # not found when not blessed exception
+                die $ret[0];
+            }
+        }
+    };
 
     # Error
     die $self->tt->error unless $ok;
diff --git a/t/default_template2.t b/t/default_template2.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..290a209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/default_template2.t
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Test::More tests => 3;
+use Test::Mojo;
+use File::Temp qw( tempdir );
+use FindBin '$Bin';
+
+use Mojolicious::Lite;
+use Mojolicious::Plugin::TtRenderer::Engine ();
+
+my $tt = Mojolicious::Plugin::TtRenderer::Engine->build(
+    mojo => app,
+    template_options => {
+        UNICODE  => 1,
+        ENCODING => 'UTF-8',
+        INCLUDE_PATH => "$Bin/templates",
+    }
+);
+
+app->renderer->add_handler(tt => $tt);
+app->renderer->default_handler('tt');
+
+get '/' => sub {
+    die 'foo';
+};
+
+my $t = Test::Mojo->new;
+
+$t->get_ok('/')
+    ->status_is(500)
+    ->content_like(qr{foo});
+
+__DATA__
+
+@@ index.html.tt
+anything