An apathetic elementary school teacher learns the true meaning of her role when she and her student become victims of a violent pair of intruders.

In mid-century, small-town Maverley, a veteran police officer meets a sheltered teenage girl who become rebellious. They remain acquaintances throughout the years, and he follows gossip about her troubled family life.

A Canadian schoolteacher sets up shop on a tiny, near-barren island off the coast of Labrador. Before long, what begins as a peaceful new life full of love and community becomes a cold, icy prison.

On the eve of her students' elementary school graduation, a teacher in rural Ireland makes one last push to prepare her students for the real world.

A young woman gets a teaching job at a school for kids who are sick with Tuberculosis, and falls in love with the school doctor.

A young actor tours for two months with a legendary troupe through the Andes, and continues to reflect on it nine years later.

A teacher takes her students on a field trip to a tin mine. While underground, a haunting legend foreshadows a grotesque, karmic tragedy.

A young, optimist white teacher in New York takes a job at an all-Black school, determined to break through to his students and properly teach them, despite being stuck in a school system that has continually failed them.

A school janitor contends with a boiler that starts a deadly fire in an over-crowded and neglected elementary school.

An innocent introductory French course called la Muerte teaches vocabulary, by describing a typical farm until the farmer disappears.