Saoirse Ronan, the multiple Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-nominated star of Lady Bird, Little Women, and The Outrun, takes a daring turn as Maria, a well-meaning primary school teacher hanging on by a thread. She's doing her best to inspire a class of ten-year-olds, but is stifled by one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child's behaviour spiralling, she makes a series of bad decisions that ultimately lead to her taking and locking this bad apple in her home. Faced with the severity of what she's done, Maria tries desperately to backtrack, but when the class starts flourishing and the staff and parents are thrilled with the improvement, she finds herself in a very complicated predicament in this darkly comic satirical thriller.
