Sophia Tanner is a small town girl from Gatlinburg, Tennessee pursuing her dreams to one day be an SVU detective in New York City. It's her last year of college before she graduates and she's just moved to New York City to start her internship at SVU in Manhattan. Her first day of school at New York State she runs into a guy named Sonny Carisi and little does either one of them know-their lives will be different going forward