In the span of eighteen months, Annabeth Parsons had gone from Educational Curriculum Director at the Boston Museum of Natural History to a floundering Social Sciences teacher in Haddock County, Tennessee. With no previous teaching experience other than an add-on certificate her mother coerced her into getting while in college, she must now undertake a monumental senior class project while navigating the back room politics of a rural school system filled with expectant students, supportive colleagues, scheming administrators, and a world of small-town closet skeletons rivaling a daytime soap opera.