High-school band director Robert Hamberg is a married man, adored by his students and faculty peers, with a passion for music... and his 16-year-old drum major and star pupil. The pair engages in a forbidden sexual relationship until it breaks out in a scandal. He resigns, leaves his wife and two children, and then promptly marries the drum major. Two decades later, after the band director rebuilds his life and career, temptation presents itself again. Hamberg preys upon yet another student, but this time the illicit and illegal affair will send shockwaves throughout the community and have serious consequences.