It is 1945 in London and you are 18, in a boarding school sent there by your parents after you failed to make “mature decisions

Your teacher Mr Phillip dislikes you and belittles you after hearing a few classmates call you gay.You are sat in the classroom plaiting a girls hair when a boy throws a book at you, knocking over a bottle of ink, Mr Phillip walks in frowning

”if your going to act like a girl you can dorm with them and clean up this mess or be prepared to get a beating.”