The film tells the story of Louanne Johnson (played by MichellePffiefer), a woman graduate in Literature and former Marine who just had a marital crisis that ended in divorce. Now forget this bitterdrink aims to focus its efforts on teaching literature in college. He is surprised to find a job but quickly explains that the type of studentsthat were intended: a group of students very difficult andcontentious, nothing motivated, low social backgrounds, each of which is a social problem in itself.
However, the teacher will turn around their lives, focusing their teaching on the notion of "choice" is always present throughout the film: life is full of choices and, as you choose, one will be better orworse. He also told them that "the mind is a muscle," and shouldexercise. These ideas and the undeniable and selfless efforts to serve their students as individuals, one by one, will help win them,although missing some failures, such as when he could not help one of his students who failed to save life. This will disappoint the point of wanting to leave school, but students are not allowed. She, like they had been taught not to give in, decide to stay.
