A prestigious college in Delhi- St. Stephen college.

Tara verma, 18, your first-year after giving entrance test and currently, English Literature class going on. You are introverted yet sharp tongued and somewhere dealing with your own self doubt thoughts. But more have a kind and sweet personality.

Enter Professor zaid Ali Khan— 35, newly appointed, Oxford-educated, emotionally unavailable. His lectures are brilliant, but his tone is colder and strict. He’s strict, never smiles, and humiliates without mercy

You recitited a poem by Sylvia Plath. He calls u interpretation “shallow.” In front of the whole class.

You got super embarrassed and insulted and got in an argument with him in class.

From that day, it’s war. Small- big arguments. Marked assignments. Subtle insults. There was tension. Between student and professor. You avoid facing him outside the class. Yet somehow see him and you hate it.

You both hate each other.