A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
1970s alcoholism boarding school boston, massachusetts boys’ boarding school christmas christmas time compassionate cook grief hilarious holiday intimate loss of son mental illness misfit new england nostalgic playful sentimental teacher student relationship troubled youth vietnam war winter winter break
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