A writer and poet teaching advanced writing at an upscale Maine college prep school. He inspires students with vivid imagery but suffers from writer's block and chronic lateness, bordering on firing. A high-functioning alcoholic, he is divorced and estranged from his adult son. Initially clashes with Dina over words versus pictures, then pursues her romantically. After crashing into her painting while drunk and confessing to plagiarizing his son's poem, he resigns but is allowed to finish the year and stage the final assembly.
Core ideological opponents debating the superiority of literary versus visual media.
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