白人历史教师丹·邓恩,在纽约布鲁克林一家破旧的公立中学教书,他的学生多是黑人。丹有激情和创造力,热爱学生,不遵循官方教学大纲,相信黑格尔辩证法,认为历史本质由相反力作用而成。他使得纸页间枯燥的历史生动鲜活,鼓励学生思考和分析历史,及自己周遍世界的运作法则,学生成为丹存活于社会的救生索。晚上,他是不可救药的瘾君子。
这种分裂的生活没有能持续多久,丹某次在空无一人的女更衣室吸毒而虚脱,被他的黑人女学生德丽发现。共同保守的阴暗秘密,拉近了他们的关系,也改变了各自的生活。。After being complicit in a costume joke that ends in a fatal accident and a pact of silence, a group of young people will be threatened by an anonymous writer who wants to reveal his dark secret. Their stalker threatens to post a bloody horror novel based on them on social media. Each chapter one of them will die. While distrusting each other, the group will begin a fight for s...。