Teacher

William Crimsworth is young and poor. He feels like an outsider and unhappy in a clerk's job, and the position of a teacher in an expensive boarding school for boys in Brussels seems to him a fortunate change of fate. It is there that he is to undergo a difficult path of growing up and the harsh "cultivation of feelings" – from youthful infatuation with a vibrant woman older than himself to a deep, conscious feeling for a colleague, the beginning teacher Frances Henri. However, the innocent "office romance" provokes malice and hostility in the hypocritical atmosphere of the boarding school…