Accused of killing a woman on a train, Sharon Carlin runs home to find another corpse there too!

Peter Gifford is a likable, dedicated schoolteacher that teaches a senior life skills class. When student Janet Sommers brings up the topic of sex and dating, he asks students to write questions on the topic, and will cover them in the next class. The parents get wind of what Gifford is about to do, notify the principal, and he warns Peter not to read the questions in class. Gifford decides to go against this and is suspended. The whole student body protests, and the administration gets worried on what to do.

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.