Andrew Crocker-Harris has been required from his position as the classics master at an English public institution because of bad health and wellness. As he winds up his final term, he finds not only that his other half, Millie, has actually been unfaithful to him with among his fellow schoolmasters, yet that the institution's pupils as well as faculty have lengthy disdained him. Nonetheless, an unanticipated act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.