Who is lying A child comes home and reports that he has had sex with his teacher At the same time a teacher reports to her principal that she has received a note from a student wherein the student threatens to tell the world that they the student and the teacher have had sex unless the teacher gives him a passing grade If you set this conflict in a poor rural community where rumor is king and backyard gossip is the coin of the realm you have an explosive drama best compared to To Kill a Mockingbird Add to this that the teacher is a firstyear pretty young thing from outofstate and the student is an underachiever from a wellknown inyourface local family and the stage is quite literally set for a polarized community cat fight Who would you believe