On April 26, 1950, 23-year-old Sylvia Jones was given ten more years to live after she was permanently paralyzed when the boiler in her and her husband's Seattle apartment building exploded.

After 75 years of depending on a wheelchair while raising a family and building a life abundant with humor, joy, and pragmatism; Sylvia passed peacefully at 98-years-old.

With archival tape from their pandemic interview, host and producer Kristin Leong unravels her grandmother's extraordinary story and traces the lines of unlikely optimism between the two of them.