William Crimsworth is young and poor. He feels like an outsider and is unhappy in his office job, and the position of a teacher at an expensive boys' boarding school in Brussels seems to him a happy change of fortune....
It is there that he is to go through a difficult path of growing up and cruel "education 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" evokes malice and hostility in the hypocritical atmosphere of the boarding school…
William Crimsworth is young and poor. He feels like an outsider and is unhappy in his office job, and the position of a teacher at an expensive boys' boarding school in Brussels seems to him a happy change of fortune. It is there that he is to go through a difficult path of growing up and cruel "education 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" evokes malice and hostility in the hypocritical atmosphere of the boarding school…