It is the story of a teacher who has a different life experience while he does not always want to communicate fully with his students. This is the weak spirit associated with this teacher’s past, but he may find himself stuck in a public school.
The film is guilty of reverse sentimentality, where the relentless unhappiness comes to seem as manufactured and artificial as the schmaltz in a romcom.
It's a film so well paced with a message so relevant that it deserves an audience bigger than what it got and it deserves more of an emotional impact than will resonant throughout.