Eine Schule für Jane Cumming

Edinburgh, 1810. Teachers Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods fulfill their dream of an independent life by opening a boarding school together. Their lives change forever when a wealthy aristocrat enrolls her “illegitimate” 15-year-old granddaughter from India at the school. The teachers strive to help the girl fit in, but she remains an outsider among her classmates.

When the grandmother insists that Miss Pirie and Miss Woods take Jane Cumming in for the summer, the three grow closer. Personal and professional boundaries blur, affection grows, and an unusual family emerges. As the new school year begins, tensions rise. The teachers feel just as overwhelmed by Jane’s growing need for closeness as they do by their own changing relationship.

When Jane Cumming feels excluded from her new family, she demands to be returned to her grandmother. An accusation follows that forces the teachers into an existential struggle and leads to a years-long legal battle that shakes the Scottish establishment to its core. Based on a true story.