Takashi Mikami joins Japan’s elite bureaucracy in the Ministry of Education hoping to strengthen critical thinking skills among students, but soon learns that his ministry is more interested in the goals of self-preservation. When Mikami gets “exiled” to a private high school on a ministry program, he represents both the bureaucrats who helped create the system and the teachers suffering from it. So Mikami leads a group of high school seniors to battle power and reform the education system.
松坂桃李飾演的御上孝是東京大學畢業的文科省精英官僚,抱著「改變日本教育」的理想投身教育改革,卻發現理想與現實差距巨大。教育現場淪為權力角逐的工具,中樞只顧自身利益。在新設派遣制度下,他被左遷至私立高中,卻決心從現場發聲,摧毀僵化的系統。他以教師身份站上講台,啟發令和時代的18歲高中生,勇敢挑戰不公與權力,書寫教育現場的革新篇章。