Jean Brodie, a teacher with advanced and unconventional ideas that put her at odds with the other members of staff at the Marcia Blaine School in Edinburgh, endeavours to shape the lives of the select group of girls who form her 'set'. At once comic and provocative, 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', set in the highly charged political atmosphere of the 1930s, is a story of idealism, disenchantment and ultimately betrayal.