The complicated and chaotic life of a good-hearted boarding school geography teacher figures prominently in this meandering melodrama. The teacher's efforts to help a suicidal student only add to the chaos in his own household. And he must somehow fend off the love-struck attentions of a fellow teacher without crushing her spirit or ruining his own career. Then there is the question of what to do about the boy who is forever running away from the school to find out where his wandering mother has gotten to now, and what man she has taken up with... ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi