A teacher reminisces about all his wonderful students of the Narrative Studies courses he has taught around the world before his career comes to an end.

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.

When a philosophy professor is called into a committee meeting for inappropriate behavior, she stews over what got her here, and how.

After an assistant professor mistakes an endangered albatross for a duck and kills it, she reevaluates how she perceives others and how others perceive her as the assumptions she makes about others threaten her job and her marriage.

A professor tries to convey to his students the magnitude of the most perfectly crafted poem ever written in the English language: “Lycidas.”

After one of her young low-income students shows up to class disheveled, a female teacher from Chicago makes it her mission to create a strong bond with the girl in hopes it will prevent her from dropping out of school.

In Michigan, a recently divorced professor reflects on what it means to exist, first alone in his empty apartment and then alongside his student in a mission to find a missing girl.

A mathematics professor must contend with faith, loneliness, and academic mediocrity when a past mistake comes crashing back into his life.

A teacher finds herself entangled in the life of a mesmerising student, only to learn that everything he told her about himself was a lie.

A first-generation college student, hours from graduating, dreads leaving school and her faculty mentor for the "real world" and her traditional, Eastern European parents.