Alma knows what it is like to experience loss. In 1969, on a trip to the planetarium in New York City, she lost her young nephew to an abductor. Overcome with grief, she joined the Navy and headed to Vietnam, where she fell in love with a navigator who eventually went missing in action. All the while, her nephew was living a great life with a wealthy, eccentric art collector. In A Trip to the Stars, Alma goes on a soul-searching adventure that may reunite her with her long-lost nephew.