Do you have a small piece of wire to test with? If so plug it in to a computer and touch the top pin of Q or Esc to the bottom pin of 1 (in the first pic) - one of them should type a 1 (looks to be Esc, but that's a strange design...) If it does you can solder the wire to the broken pin on 1 to bypass the broken trace.
If not a pic of a larger area of board may help see what's going on, but having a plate in the way is not going to be helpful!