AustLit

'I’m not saying – not really – that I can change the world, but maybe – there’s a big part of me that thinks: you know what? I have the privileged education. I have the determination. Maybe it’s not a colossal effect, but maybe – I can alter something. Maybe I can.

'PJ moves to a remote country town to take up a teaching job as part of a prestigious re-training program. She is assigned a difficult student, Sam. As PJ’s life becomes harder, she finds herself forging a bond with her ward, he becomes not only a student, but a project, with a particular fascination.

'As their classes break and rebuild, lessons are taught, rules are broken and a dangerous obsession – a co-dependence – forms. Who is teaching who?' (Production summary)