WILDERNESS is an hourlong workplace drama that follows twenty-something field guides working in a Wilderness Therapy program in southern Utah as they care for troubled teens and, through the rigors of the work, come to understand themselves.

Veering from dangerous survival stories to absurd situations and psychological breakthroughs, this series depicts a world populated by adventurous, empathic, and eccentric young adult ‘field guides’ and their clients: teenagers struggling with addictions and trauma (and in some cases entitlement and arrogance) whose parents have shipped them to an intensive and expensive ‘wilderness therapy’ program as a last ditch attempt to save their kids. WILDERNESS plunges viewers directly into “the field”, providing intimate, intense snapshots of young people in crisis and the barely-older-than-them guides who attempt to keep them safe and facilitate their self-discovery. Through high-stakes, heartbreaking and empathic storytelling, WILDERNESS depicts a group of Gen-Z and Millennial searchers finding their purpose in the world while dealing with teen clients’ crises of mental health, drug and social media addictions, and attempt to find rejuvenation and healing through an encounter with Nature.