Joselyn was building her career recording commercials, producing nationally syndicated radio shows and working with music producers when the 2008 economic downturn hit. After transitioning from Hollywood to homelessness for too long, she decides to move back to her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. She unexpectedly gets a high school teaching job with at-risk students in a section of Albuquerque known as "The war zone." She's jolted into the realities many students and teachers live, and now has to face the childhood traumas she ran away from.