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A dedicated, humanistically minded teacher – convinced of their ability to make a difference – strives to create a classroom environment fuelled by empathy, dialogue and democratic thought. Yet among the students, resistance has long been building…

The divide between them grows. Caught between conformity and personal conviction, social expectations and institutional demands, both teacher and students come under mounting pressure.

This reimagining of Ödön von Horváth’s “Godless Youth” transports the classic novel into a plausible near future, in which authoritarian forces exert an increasingly firm grip on everyday life at the school. It poses the question: How much crisis can a classroom endure?