Grace & Grit: A Tale on Two Wheels

Grace McKinnon is running - not only from her PTSD, but from long-kept secrets. She trades the stark, concrete walls of the prison where she worked as a Correctional Officer for the beautiful chaos of a motorcycle trek across Central and South America. Perched on her uncle’s BMW Bumble Bee, she hopes its engine’s roar will drown out the ghosts of her past and the jagged memories of the dark justice she once sought. But the road has a way of exposing what we try to hide. While navigating the grit and gravel of the wild terrain of the South, the North beckons with a series of chilling betrayals, each one leading back to the puppet-master of her family’s misery: Aunt Brenda. While her family disintegrates in her rearview mirror, the eclectic people she meets along her journey force her to confront the light and the shadow within her own soul – the grace and grit. At a crossroads in the heart of the Andes mountains, Grace must decide: Does she return to pick up the shattered pieces of a life built on lies, or keep the throttle open toward a new-found tribe and a future of her own? Read more