A teenage girl is sent to prep school after her mother dies. She tries to fit in, but it leads to pain and confusion.

An actress rolls through the plan of a rehearsed production while making small mistakes to spite the production team.

A high school English teacher copes with his disappointing reality by imagining a secret life for himself at a distinguished university campus - but he is shocked and furious when one of the students that he looks down upon has a similar method of escapism.

When a black teenage girl at a private school gets invited to a party by a wealthy white student, she struggles to navigate the divide between their world and her own.

When a charismatic new econ history teacher moves in next door and gains a mass following at an Ohio university, the physical education instructor wonders if he is really worth the hype.

A failing friendship with another couple leads a community college teacher to leave the country.

Having poured 53 years of her life into the creation of a refined girl’s school, principal Miss Bird despairs in the changing of the times and gradual sapping of her powers into the hands of a new board, finally slapping the daughter of the chairman in the face in her all-consuming anger.

Four women go their separate ways after a bullied teenager carries out a school shooting.

A lonely high school English teacher develops a crush on one of his students, who continually writes him notes about the books she reads and calls him out of the blue. When her family invites him over for dinner to celebrate her admission to Princeton, he is caught off guard when they announce they want him to marry her.

A young woman of color at an elite boarding school turns to murder when she is constantly placed second to a mediocre, privileged white boy.