An unconventional teacher with a controversial classroom library must choose between helping her not-so-promising student and risking her career when she gives the boy a banned book. 

SYNOPSIS:

When the school's most prolific drug dealer tries to keep Abel Cazares on the payroll and his English teacher tries to make him repeat 8th grade, Abel must choose between the tattered pages of the book his Reading teacher gave him, and the seduction of his drug dealing future.