Facing the prospect of fatherhood, disillusioned by his fledgling teaching career, and mourning the loss of a fraught former relationship, 25-year-old Francis Mason is a prisoner of his past
mistakes. But when his second-grade class discovers a dead body during a field trip to a San Francisco beach, Francis spirals into unbearable grief and all-consuming paranoia. As his behavior
grows increasingly erratic, and tensions arise with the school principal and the parents of his students, he faces the familiar urge to flee a choice that forces him to confront the
character weaknesses that have shattered his life again and again and to accept the wrenching truth about the past he’s never been able to move beyond.