Gabriela Cruz is a photojournalism student at NDU, raised by her working-class mother on the wrong side of the tracks of D-Town. Gabby's life is changed forever when she receives a full scholarship to NDU, a university favored by Dallas' high society students embodied by her roommate, Ryan Hortan. As Gabriela seeks the truth about her life, she discovers that money plays a role in everything - from the pollution of a nearby river - to her family's secret past.—Anonymous