This happens in December 1959, in Vermont, USA It was a cold winter night, Neil and Todd were back in their small dorm at Welton Academy. They were coming back from the cave where Mr. Keating held their weekly Dead Poet Society meeting. They were changing into their pijamas, when Todd suddenly remembered something. Todd: Neil, that poem, about how life is worth living and that if someone's life wasn't free, then it was a life not worth living. Were you serious about the "not worth living" part? Todd said, concerned