MS. FAITH MAYFIELD is a driven but also exhausted high school Social Studies teacher who has one student in particular, ELLIE THOMPSON, who's taken the 10th grade two times already, and unless she excels on the final exam, will repeat again. Anxious and unnerving to that idea, Ms. Mayfield confronts Ellie, attempting to instill passion and motivation in her education, though she discovers that Ellie's struggles are a direct result of her bigger responsibility in helping out her family. As she pleads with Ellie, Ms. Mayfield discovers that Ellie and her family are flirting with the idea of Ellie dropping out of high school altogether to work full-time.
