Devon Waters is an ordinary teacher with an extraordinary desire. Beyond teaching day after day at Lawrence Higgins High School, a longing grows within him to be a hero in some sort of way. Little does he know the chance for that is presented unexpectedly when an incident occurs at the school that no one is quite clear on. However, Devon presents an assignment to one of his classes, but the magnitude of this assignment escalates and spreads throughout the surrounding areas. Now it's up to Devon to keep everything in the right proportion before time runs out, and to stop a man who is in hot pursuit to see to it that he fails.