Movie Story : Portia Nathan, a rigid admissions officer at Princeton, travels to an unconventional high school to recruit students and is thrown off balance when she meets John Pressman, an old classmate who now runs the place. Pressman believes a gifted but unorthodox student named Jeremiah may be the son Portia gave up for adoption years earlier. As Portia reconsiders her carefully ordered life, she finds herself drawn into a rekindled connection with Pressman.