When a senior class gets a new teacher, they struggle to cope with the strict rules he imposes in the classroom. Their unease turns to full-blown hatred when one of their classmates kills herself shortly after a confrontation with the teacher, leaving the rest of the class to hold him to blame.
Due to a huge difference in the way they perceive life, the relationship between students and their new German language teacher becomes critically tense. When one of the students commits suicide, her classmates accuse the teacher of being responsible for her death.