About Trust Fund is the story of Reese Donahue (Jessica Rothe) a young aspiring writer from Chicago. She's spent her whole life working hard to keep from working, living the life everyone else wants. Until she discovers the secret that forces her to choose between the predestined life that she knows so well and what appears to be the destiny her mother wanted her to have. She's lured into betraying her father and chasing after a life she dreams is better than the one she already has. When Reese returns home with nothing but regret, the forgiveness of her father teaches her what it means to love.