Jake Westwood. A 11th grade history teacher wakes up and goes through his organized neat early morning routine. Before leaving the house though he does a line of coke. At school he prepares for the kids to come in on the first day. Once the kids are in he starts to tell them about how this year they will be learning about the darkerside of history. The kids are full of attention. They walking away interested in what that class is going to teach.
They kids have come to like history and work hard in that class. The teacher inspires them. But his coke habit has picked up and the kids begin to see signs. Rumors spread and more evidence is see till the teacher is one day caught in the act. The students lose respect in him and no longer pay attention in class. The teacher denies hes an addict. Situation get worse.
It’s a dark night, and the teacher goes to buy some coke but is robbed for it and left beaten in the street. A few of his student s are coming home from a party and find him. They bring him home. They come back the next morning (Saturday) and tell him that they are going to make him quit. Turns out they had already searched his home and found all of his hidden coke. Starting from then the kids pat him down every morning in school and when he comes home they are randomly searching his house for coke. Weeks go buy and Jake begins to improve.
Its almost the end of the year and Jake is totally clean. His students are interested again and life is good. One day he gets a call his brother died. His brother has come up in various parts of the movie and it is clear they were close. Jake is crying in his office after school. As he cries he reaches under his coffee bug and untapes a bag of coke. He puts it into lines and rolls a dollar, camera cuts out.