The story of a venerable British public schoolmaster, whose career at Brookfield Academyspans from 1870 to 1928, told through vignettes portraying comic and tragic events in his life.

"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...