A veteran teacher at a prestigious boarding school compromises his morals to help a rebellious student enter a contest. William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who...

A veteran teacher at a prestigious boarding school compromises his morals to help a rebellious student enter a contest. William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.