Students take notes lying on workplace couches and ought to research their own gifts through electives such as graphic-novel and break dancing writing. Until she embarks on a photography study under the tutelage of the alluring educator, Ben, in the middle of all of this liberal pedagogy and budding gift, Molly Maxwell feels unexceptional. Their relationship grows past the darkroom, setting Ben's role in peril, and introducing Molly to the throes of a romance.