Angliya, 1984 god. Posle semeynogo skandala shestnadcatiletnyaya Ida sbezhala iz SHotlandii i poluchila stipendiyu v zahudaloy shkole-internate dlya devochek, chto zateryalas' na otshibe yuzhnogo poberezh'ya Anglii. I pust' direktrisa to i delo predosteregaet vospitannic ob ugroze holodnoy voyny i neminuemoy yadernoy katastrofe, a novaya sosedka Idy po komnate - potencial'naya piromanka i autsayder, shkola vse ravno kazhetsya ey nadezhnym ubezhishchem. Kazalos' by, vot mesto, gde mozhno perezhdat' buryu i nachat' zhizn' zanovo. Odnako, illyuziya pokoya okazyvaetsya lish' tihim omutom, v glubine kotorogo pritailas' opasnost'.
Hrupkoe ravnovesie shkoly narushaet poyavlenie novogo uchitelya. Vskore v shkole nachinayut tvoritsya strannye veshchi: uchenicy odna za drugoy padayut v sudorogah. Chto proiskhodit s devochkami internata Svyatoy Anny? Bolezn'? Isteriya? Ili yad? I kto v etom sluchae otravitel'?
Slushayte istoriyu, v kotoroy avtor masterski sochetaet mrachnuyu intrigu i uyutnuyu, karamel'nuyu atmosferu shkoly dlya devochek, dopolnyaya eto ostroumiem, dostoynym luchshih britanskih komediy, v ispolnenii Anastasii Skorik, Anastasii SHumilkinoy i Grigoriya Perelya.
