Lucille Vincent is an old woman living in a globalized Texas in 2050. When she receives a mysterious post card from an old friend inviting her to revisit their shared past, she boards a plane hoping to uncover the truths that have lain underneath the surface of her reality for the past forty-odd years. She brings with her a manuscript that she calls Gridlocked, a recounting of her understanding of the tragedies she experienced as a young woman that wreaked havoc on her world view at the time, the influential people who helped her reshape it, and the mysterious circumstances that bound them...