Chris Bowling, a senior-to-be from Cincinnati, charts the demise of a woman named Melissa Shields, whom we first meet as she lies virtually lifeless on the street, her pants around her ankles and her bare legs blistering in the July heat. She is saved by a friend, who then tries to convince Melissa to go to a treatment center or hospital. “Take me back to Whiteclay,” she says.

Lauren Brown-Hulme, a senior-to-be from Kansas City, follows a 22-year-old missionary named Abram Neumann as he befriends, feeds and tries to get the street people of Whiteclay into treatment. Neumann tells Brown-Hulme that, in his two years at the Lakota Hope Ministry, eight of his friends have died alcohol-fueled deaths. He questions how anyone can continue selling the street people beer day after day, and death after death.

A photographer named James Wooldridge spent his entire spring break shooting photos at Whiteclay. Another, Jake Crandall, taught himself to fly a drone, got his license and shot drone footage that became the centerpiece of many of the project's videos.

“I don’t think I have ever felt so strongly about something in my life,” Bowling says.