In reality, you can't do whatever you want. In reality, you must compromise. Mark Blazey despises reality. Mark,17, lives in a semi-industrial coastal town with a turbulent family and just lost a scholarship to a private school to end up in the local high. At school, Mark is targeted by an authoritarian principal who controls everything. At home, Mark has a sibling in prison, a grandmother fighting for her life, and a mother whose temper is cooled with cask wine. He wants to safeguard his tiny sister. Mark meets his first true love and seeks to escape his life's forces with her. But he is in love with the school principal's daughter. Tensions simmer between student and teacher, son and mother.
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In reality, you can't do whatever you want. In reality, you must compromise. Mark Blazey despises reality. Mark,17, lives in a semi-industrial coastal town with a turbulent family and just lost a scholarship to a private school to end up in the local high. At school, Mark is targeted by an authoritarian principal who controls everything. At home, Mark has a sibling in prison, a grandmother fighting for her life, and a mother whose temper is cooled with cask wine. He wants to safeguard his tiny sister. Mark meets his first true love and seeks to escape his life's forces with her. But he is in love with the school principal's daughter. Tensions simmer between student and teacher, son and mother.
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