Li Ping, a female high school teacher, is a screw in the heavily disciplined teaching machine. Every day with "bad students", she felt absurd and desolate. She has regular trysts with a married male teacher in an old house that is about to be demolished, but she doesn't know when she starts seeing her grandfather who has been dead for many years.
Li Ping, a female high school teacher, is a screw in the heavily disciplined teaching machine. Every day with "bad students", she felt absurd and desolate. She has regular trysts with a married male teacher in an old house that is about to be demolished, but she doesn't know when she starts seeing her grandfather who has been dead for many years.
A talented young writer embarks on a creative odyssey when her teacher assigns a project that entangles them both.
When a high school senior discovers her teacher is seducing her boyfriend, events turn deadly after the teacher tries to cover it up.
A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.
When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate apart. What began as a good deed becomes a desperate fight to save Nate from his own demons. As Nate spirals deeper into despair, Deen must decide how far he’s willing to go to save a kid on the brink of losing everything—even himself.
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.