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