Madison is eighteen years old, almost out of high school, and navigating impoverished life in Las Vegas. Then her world is turned upside down when she finds out her best friend is an escort. Attracted by the idea of money, she joins the business herself. Several years and one particularly bad experience later, she meets a man who will change her life, yet again with the promise of something better.

Madison's life twists and turns in all the wrong directions until she decides to move to Los Angeles under a new name and start again. That's where she meets Josie, an emotionally volatile struggling musician who helps Madison - now Emily - experience life in a different key and gives her a strange, fleeting hope for the future. Will Josie be the one to save Emily from herself? Or can Emily learn to do so on her own?