For generations, Welton Academy college students have been groomed to dwell lives of conformity and tradition-until a charismatic new professor, John Keating, evokes them to assume for themselves, dwell life to the fullest and “Carpe Diem” His unconventional strategy awakens the spirits of the scholars and evokes them to make their lives extraordinary, however he quickly attracts the wrath of a disapproving college when an surprising tragedy strikes the college.

