William Wakefield, der Direktor der englischen Privatschule Maudlin Street freut sich schon auf seine neue Stelle an der modernen Schule in Sussex. Er muss nur noch die Schulinspektorin Felicity Wheeler und den Kinderpsychologen Alistair Grigg, die eigens zur Überprüfung seiner Fähigkeiten anreisen, überzeugen. Als die Schüler jedoch spitz kriegen, dass ihr geliebter Direktor sie verlassen will, laufen die kleinen Racker zur Höchstform auf und sabotieren den Unterricht, wo es nur möglich ist ...
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Júlio Dantas. Trying to highlight the romantic tone, the ruralism of the picturesque situations and environments, the spirit and characters of 1863 are revived: the characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinguished morals of Pedro and Daniel, the bonhomie of João Semana, finally the disagreements , common sense, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of Minho.