You can't just do anything you want in the actual world. You have to compromise in the real world. Mark Blazey despises living in the real world. Mark, a seventeen-year-old smart kid from a turbulent household who has just thrown away a scholarship to a private school and found himself at the local high, lives in a semi-industrial coastal town. Mark is singled out at school by an oppressive principal who has complete control over everything. Mark has a jailed brother, a grandmother fighting for her life, and a mother whose short fuse is kept doused with cask wine at home. His little sister is someone he want to safeguard. When Mark meets his first true love, he uses her to try to escape all of the pressures in his life. However, he is over over heels in love with the daughter of his arch-rival, the school principal. Tensions between the student and the teacher, as well as between the boy and his mother, had been simmering for some time.
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You can't just do anything you want in the actual world. You have to compromise in the real world. Mark Blazey despises living in the real world. Mark, a seventeen-year-old smart kid from a turbulent household who has just thrown away a scholarship to a private school and found himself at the local high, lives in a semi-industrial coastal town. Mark is singled out at school by an oppressive principal who has complete control over everything. Mark has a jailed brother, a grandmother fighting for her life, and a mother whose short fuse is kept doused with cask wine at home. His little sister is someone he want to safeguard. When Mark meets his first true love, he uses her to try to escape all of the pressures in his life. However, he is over over heels in love with the daughter of his arch-rival, the school principal. Tensions between the student and the teacher, as well as between the boy and his mother, had been simmering for some time.
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