You cannot simply do whatever you want in the actual world. In the real world, you must make concessions. Mark Blazey despises living in the real world. Mark, seventeen years old and living in a semi-industrial coastal town, is a bright boy from a troubled home who has just thrown away a scholarship to a private school and ended up at the local high. At school, Mark is singled out by an authoritarian principal who controls everything. At home, Mark is coping with a jailed brother, a grandmother fighting for her life, and a mother whose short fuse is constantly dampened with cask wine. His little sister is someone he want to safeguard. When Mark falls in love for the first time, he attempts to flee all the influences in his life with her. However, his affection is directed on the daughter of his rival, the school principal. Tensions between the student and the teacher, between the youngster and his mother, have been simmering for some time.
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You cannot simply do whatever you want in the actual world. In the real world, you must make concessions. Mark Blazey despises living in the real world. Mark, seventeen years old and living in a semi-industrial coastal town, is a bright boy from a troubled home who has just thrown away a scholarship to a private school and ended up at the local high. At school, Mark is singled out by an authoritarian principal who controls everything. At home, Mark is coping with a jailed brother, a grandmother fighting for her life, and a mother whose short fuse is constantly dampened with cask wine. His little sister is someone he want to safeguard. When Mark falls in love for the first time, he attempts to flee all the influences in his life with her. However, his affection is directed on the daughter of his rival, the school principal. Tensions between the student and the teacher, between the youngster and his mother, have been simmering for some time.
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