Perpetual Gloom is the first installment of The Boloney Trail trilogy. The Boloney Trail Trilogy Logline The Boloney Trail trilogy tells a true, uncensored and unapologetic, story of three generations of the Hornbeck family as they fight to survive the Great Depression by serving the Lord and the Devil, only then to become involved in the dawning of the feared Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel in the early 1960s. Perpetual Gloom Synopsis Perpetual Gloom lays the foundation for The Boloney Trail trilogy, and introduces the main male character, Monroe, living in Arkansas in the 1930s. Monroe tiers of his father's religious hypocrisy after seeing his father rob a bank, and later put on trial for being a communist. In his late teens, Monroe steals his father’s horse and makes his way across the country. His experience along the way forms the kind of man he will later become. He weds a young woman, Dora, after getting her pregnant. Trying to settle into married life, Monroe begins to doubt whether he can live up to her economic goals and religious ambitions without surrendering his need for adventure.