The future of Singapore’s education
system is in the hands of two
teenage girls.
When the eccentric new education minister unveils
a radical local exchange programme called INSTEP,
two Secondary 3 girls find themselves uprooted
from their lives and transplanted into unfamiliar
new surroundings. Rowena, a mediocre student at
one of Singapore’s top girls’ schools, and Janice,
the overachieving pride of a “heartland institution”,
must each find a way to survive one term at the
other’s school. But just when they think they have it
all figured out, a rash of misfortune threatens to shut
INSTEP down.
