"Ruta is growing up in a failing school and a failing society. "There is nothing I can do to help her." A decade after the London riots, a reprobate teacher records the anger and vitriol of the new generation. He fixates on the innocence of a perfect female student from his past. Unearth his conscience as he fights for breath in the turmoil of his decline. Ruta is an allegorical novella about poor British schools. It traces an all too common pattern in schools; an enthusiastic young teacher's decline into nervosa as war breaks out in the classroom.