Nano-Fine-I'll-Outline-My-Plot

I gave it some thought, and did some searches for plot, and came across a few sites that had interesting things to say on plots, outlines and the importance of preparation. I decided it would be a good idea after all, and I gave some thought to my storyline.

I want it to feel disjointed, but not too disjointed. I want it to have the intermingled vignette quality of Babel and Pulp Fiction.

I decided to write a synopsis, like what would be found on the back of the book (except longer) and this is what I have come up with so far:

The U.S.A. has been disbanded in a civil war, and re-established into corporate controlled New America. The Moston Project, a government initiated endeavor cloaked as an alternative to abortion, has gone awry. Fantanelle, one of the earlier generations of the Moston Project, escapes the institution where she was raised and spends nearly a decade eluding her captors.

Along the way she meets Ridley, a lonesome agronomist; Hunter, a bawdy and wise madame; and Bea, leader of an anti-corporate resistance. Each character has suffered his or her own losses, and struggles in their own way to find love and to recover from their own demons and isolation.

Fantanelle discovers that her mother is alive, and after modifying her appearance to evade the people still searching for her, she sets out on a mission to find her, and to learn more about her life and how she ended up at the institute. She calls on the friends she’s made for help, and they discover that their paths are all intermingled.

It seems like a good plot, except I have no idea how to make it happen.

My biggest fear here is that I'll write something contrived. I want the flow to be natural. I want the surprises to be punch-in-the-gut shocking. I want the commentary to be powerful and thought provoking. I want the prose to be lyrical and poetic. In the end, I'd rather read a review that says it's boring as opposed to over-reaching, obvious or dishonest.

Right now, there's no "problem", per se. The story is becoming about Fantanelle and her escape from an evil institution, and her journey to straighten herself out. Sound familiar? If you know me at all, it should. I don't want to write my story here. Specifically, I want to NOT write my story here. This story is about these characters I've created and their lives. There's a time for my own story, and it's not now. So how can I pull back from that 25k words in and give the story back to Ridley, Hunter and Bea?

No really... how?