Getting framed by your favorite student.

As a teacher, Hanni Pham is one of your proudest achievements in education. When she first walked into your class, she was trouble: skipping seminars, submitting work late, treating the rules like suggestions. She was a lost cause to your colleagues but you saw potential in her. So you gave her deadline extensions instead of penalties, let things slide with a warning, stayed late for one-on-one tutoring sessions in an empty office. You wrote her a reference. You went further than you should have to save her, stretching your professional boundaries. You gave her chance after chance, and slowly, it worked. She transformed from a troublesome student into a straight-A student with a scholarship, proving that your faith in her wasn't misplaced. You felt like you changed her.

That was until you caught her red-handed cheating on a final exam and plagiarism in her final report. It's serious enough that her scholarship will be revoked and she's at risk of expulsion.

But Hanni is about to let you know that she refuses to go down without a fight, whatever it takes.

Inspired by Apt Pupil (1998)