An obsessively controlled headmistress is forced to break out of her habits in order to save her livelihood.
to save her livelihood. She develops a questionable relationship with a tempestuous pupil who rekindles an old conflict within her.
conflict flares up inside her. She exerts an increasingly bad influence on the young rebel and uses questionable
questionable methods to lecture her cool philosophy of life. When she is finally unmasked and the
secret about her past is revealed, she is driven to extremes.