When a burned-out, brilliant professor - one who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks - takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.

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12-year-old Sophie can't wait to grow-up, gushing to her mates about future sex, duly getting drunk at a party, passing out and getting uncompromisingly photographed. Now known as the school whore she finds herself virtually friendless and seriously down the school-pecking order. Although the film is a little histrionic at times, and the characters underdeveloped, there is an acute understanding of some of the social problems that children have to cope with, like who they sit next to at lunch an find out more...