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

