Berry is a schoolteacher in a working-class neighborhood. Still a substitute teacher, he wants to become a permanent employee. Today will be decisive: he will be inspected for the first time.

Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.