Agatha Blum is a 70-year-old triplet who tends to her youngest triplet sister Edith (a stroke victim) and drives for a ride sharing company. She says it is for extra spending money, but it is also her escape from the responsibilities of her household. She is the oldest of the three identical triplets but is not speaking to the middle triplet Capitola, whose offense is as yet unknown (the characters must reveal what happened to cause such a rift.) Capitola comes to help care for their sister Edith, but all communication goes through Edith because Capitola and Agatha are not speaking. She also has a baby sister named Roxy (short for Roxeanne) who is 56 and lives the next town over. She will come help with Edith, as well, but is not quite as reliable and has twice given Edith the wrong medications. Agatha is married to a mostly deaf man named Robert who refuses to wear hearing aids and likes to watch the television turned up so loudly that it drives everyone crazy. They live in a small country town outside of Austin, Texas and are all native to the state.

Agatha is unhappy with her situation but believes in making the best of circumstances. Her husband Robert is a retired school maintenance man and keeps the house in good repair, so she figures that is good enough as far as their marriage is concerned. They are able to live off his retirement fairly well, especially since her parents left them the house and property when they passed. Agatha and Robert started a family right after she graduated high school in 1969 and she was a stay-at-home mother until the last of her three children went off to college. Then she began doing volunteer work and odd jobs trying to find something that she enjoyed. She enrolled in a few college courses, but she was miserable in a classroom. The only thing that brought her joy was driving back country roads listening to 60’s music like The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beach Boys, and Aretha Franklin with the dogs hanging their heads out the windows.

Agatha grew up comfortably with parents who were overwhelmed by having triplets but did their best to instill discipline and provide a loving environment. She is a member of the local church, but her attendance has dropped off in recent years. Her husband still attends but has given up pressuring her to go and simply tells people she is home taking care of her sister. When people from the church visit her and Edith, she is welcoming but has begun to question many of her own long-held beliefs. She keeps her thoughts to herself because she does not want to cause ripples of conflict in her family. The only chance she gets to speak freely is with strangers she gives rides to through the ride sharing app. She has three adult daughters, five granddaughters, and four great-granddaughters. Her sisters each have daughters, as well. No one in her immediate family has ever had a boy.

Agatha is afraid her sister Edith will die. Even worse, Agatha is afraid her sister Edith will not recover fully and will remain dependent on her forever. Agatha feels guilty for not wanting to continue to care for Edith, but also feels that it is her duty because she was given the house and property by her parents knowing that they expected her as the oldest to continue to look after the family. She does not want to be in the matriarchal role she has been assigned and wants to hop in her car and drive away, never to be heard from again. She is hurt by the rift with Capitola, worried about her 2^nd oldest granddaughter who has developed an opioid addiction, her middle daughter Imogene who seems lonely and depressed, and her baby sister Roxy who is separated from her 5^th husband and struggling to find her footing.