Adam Scott Actor

The story opens up in Juarez, Mexico, a city torn asunder by drug cartel violence. Trish Fahey is a teacher who has lost touch with why she wanted to work with children in the first place. As a child, she was orphaned to gang violence, when her prostitute mother was killed after qutting the business by her drug dealer father. This pushed Trish to go on to teach high school, but since then she has become jaded, and lost touch with the things that really matter. She finds herself blaming parents for the problems with the children in her class, and often dismisses any reason the children might have for what she sees as less than adequate grades. On top of all this, Trish battles her own demons in the form of substance abuse, as the trauma from her childhood continually resurfaces in the form of drug and alcohol binges, leading her on dangerous trecks across Juarez to get her fix.