An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet c...

After being dumped by Philip, her one true love, the infatuated Nessa enrolls at his private school in the hopes of winning him back.