At an exclusive East Coast prep school, a masterly professor of classics runs into a rebellious U.S. Senator's son - but their battle of wills educates both teacher and student years later in this surprising drama.

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.