A teenager in a coed Catholic college has romantic feelings for his twenty-two years, old Literature Scottish teacher, brought to the remote African village, Ashing-Kom, through a British foreign service program. Sim does not understand that a white woman’s smile to a love-struck 14-year-old black boy is only courteous. Sim must express his love by writing love poems, daring to share them with Giselle, who quickly becomes struck by his boldness