At exclusive Colby University nestled in the Carolina countryside, four college seniors begin their final semester. Alicia (Mia Kirshner), plain as well as poor, is paired to work with wealthy and spoiled Hadley (Meredith Monroe) on a senior thesis project. When Alicia arrives at the exclusive row house Hadley shares with bulimic Julianne (Rachel True) and oversexed Sydney (Dominique Swain), her world changes forever. Accepted into Hadley's clique, Alicia is introduced to a world of privilege, recreational drugs and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of group ultimately result in her hospitalization. As the sheriff (Taye Diggs) tries to determine the chain of events that led to Alicia's collapse, his investigation casts a shadow over the untouchable, affluent young women.