After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist.

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister ha...

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling...

When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, la...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...

Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latime...

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start an...

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving ...

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as th...

Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem b...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking hav...

Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hi...

Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfi...

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive da...

Kennedy has one day to get her shit together or get kicked out of school for good. Instead of buckli...

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to app...

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to re...