Diana is a successful high school teacher, liked by her students, and admired by her colleagues. However, unbeknown to any of them, she is having a furtive affair with Eric one of the teenage boys in her class. It is purely sexual and mutually consensual but it carries with it enormous risks, particular for Diana.
When the lovers are together, their roles are reversed with Eric taking an authoritative lead, which seems to serve a real need for both of them. These snatched moments in their clandestine meetings become the central focus of Diana’s life. She has already engineered a falling out with her older brother so that she does not have to participate in the care of their sick mother, and now she is avoiding friends and lying to her roommate to spend as much time with Eric as possible.
He on other hand, like any high-school boy, has a very full social life and wants to spend time with his friends and peers which starts to really make an already unbalanced Diana even more edgy. She totally falls apart about the time same time as the plot of this movie does, and loses what ever little sympathy we had for her in the first place.
In this debut film from writer/director Hannah Fidell no reasons are put forward for Diana’s behaviour, or for her or Eric’s motives. It makes it all rather intriguing OR just simply plain annoying. I decided on the latter.I saw this movie (at Sundance) so that you wouldn’t have too!
