vanishing violet plot sketch

2022
The second american civil war separates the northern and southern states, unrecoverably destabilizing world diplomacy

2025
the new confederacy gets ahold of nuclear weaponry and global tensions rise into a new cold war. nations increasingly join a paranoic race for military isolacionism

2027
hostile fronts accumulate across the world, global commerce and advancements in civilian technology have all but stopped completely

2029
as the global population dwindles due to rising global temperatures, most citizens in the US live in hub cities protected from increasingly common natural disasters.
the scorching heat during the day prevents most methods of travel. driving between cities has to be done during the night via mostly lawless roads.
those that can afford it often rely on mercenary drivers called chauffeurs to make nightly runs accross hub cities

Kathleen "Kay" Wintersby in a chauffeuse who excelled in the most dangerous runs since a young age, until losing her copilot and lover in botched run for a local gang.

she now does strictly civilian work in one of the better controlled stretches of road between the hub cities of New York and Harrisburg, living paycheck to paycheck

without much to look forward to.

OCTOBER 2029
two days before halloween, Kay is driving a particularly rich client to Washington DC, returning from watching the drag races in Harrisburg. it's been years since she

last accepted a job that involved taking a southbound route away from the oversight of the Northern Commonstate, but the pay was too good to turn down, and the client

provided his own vehicle so she felt she had little to lose.

her aprehensions proved founded, however, when they are attacked in the middle of the night by a gang of armed bikes. even though the bikers had unusually high powered

weaponry for ordinary thugs, her skills hadn't rusted a day and she managed to deliver her client to washington safely, although slightly shocked with the bumpy and

almost deadly ride.

as he composed himself, however, the client reveals himself to be an envoy of the Washington Enclave govt, visiting Harrisburg in a search to find a worthy driver for

a particularly high stakes mission. while he was coming back dissapointed to notify the commander-in-chief that no good drivers were found, he now believes he found in

Kay the perfect candidate for the task, if only she agrees to it.

while not inclined to accept any more risky business, the envoy convinces her to go to the white house and hear the offer. there, the president explains that his

daughter, who was on a peace-mission tour of the southern states, has requested asap removal from Atlanta. for a chauffeur capable and willing to do the 4-day long

trip to and back from the Georgian Republic capital, the reward would allow Kay to retire at once.

Kay sleeps the day in Washington while pondering over the offer. That night, she goes to White House to refuse the job and go back hope with her usual check.
as the conversation begins, however, urgent news arrive: one of Georgia's oligarchs declared that he will be marrying Washington's first daughter, two days from now in

a wedding in Atlanta. while georgian news sources affirm that it's a consenting marriage of two young lovers, no official communication has been received from the

first-daughter since. under Georgian law, once married she would forfeit all her rights to her husband and his nuclear-capable state.

while the president all but panics, threatening to mobilize the whole guard in what could be the spark that lights a new world war, Kay has made up her mind and is

already on the road, south bound. Her wrist watch counts the 48 hrs she has to rescue the first-daughter before the wedding happens. As she races across the backroads,

she looks to a picture of the target, and can't help but feel that somehow the first daughter's e