Andrew Crocker-Harris has been compelled from his setting as the standards master at an English public institution because of poor health and wellness. As he end up his last term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has actually been unfaithful to him with among his fellow schoolmasters, however that the college's students as well as professors have lengthy disdained him. Nevertheless, an unanticipated act of compassion causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's job.