
"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else!"
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.

Bud Cort
Max Brown

Samantha Eggar
Alice Field

Chris Wiggins
Lyle Bishop

Gary Reineke
Harris Montgomery

John Friesen
Dave McDougall

Michael J. Reynolds
Burt Fields

Kenneth Griffith
Inspector Woods
Scott Swan
Dan Trowbridge

Merrilyn Gann
Sheila Barnes

Norma West
Mrs. Bishop
Margery Hill
Mrs. Montgomery
Joanne McNeal
Mrs. McDougall
George Gwin
Dance Caller
Doug Blake
Percy Garfield
Alan Stebbings
Lester Sinclair