永不退缩

洁米（玛吉·吉伦哈尔 Maggie Gyllenhaal 饰）独自抚养着女儿玛利亚（艾米丽·阿琳·林德 Emily Alyn Lind 饰），是一位坚强的单身妈妈，然而，玛利亚却因为轻微的语言障碍而在学校中饱受欺凌，就连老师也加入了嘲笑她的队列中去。 　　诺娜（维奥拉·戴维斯 Viola Davis 饰）是一位教师，在漫长的教学岁月中磨平了锐气。诺娜的儿子科迪（丹特·布朗 Dante Brown 饰）和玛利亚面临着同样的困境，然而诺娜亦无能为力，政府也毫无作为。某日，两位平凡而绝望的母亲相遇了，她们终于明白，她们必须挺身而出，为她们的孩子而战。在对抗僵化体制的过程中，两人的行为获得了支持，却也饱受非议，唯一可以肯定的是，两位母亲身上那种永不退缩的气势，给她们的孩子们带来了生活的信心和勇气。Two determined mothers with children who are failing in an inner city school in Pittsburgh join forces to take back the school, and turn it into a place of learning. But before they can change the school for the better, they must first battle the parents, the school board, and the teachers union. Because this is for their children, they won't back down from this enormous challenge.