When Emma Gardner, a whip good NYC reporter learns of her father's premature dying, she returns to her dwelling city to seek out that the idyllic farming group of her childhood has been ravaged by drought and has grow to be a spot laid low with gangs and the unwell results of maximum poverty. She rapidly figures out that her dad's unintended dying was not unintended in any respect. The lists of potential suspects embody overly zealous environmentalists, an area struggle lord and different farmers jealous of her father's excellent status.