When Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) arrives as the new art teacher at a London school, Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) takes an interest in her, believing she would make an ideal friend and confidante in the lonely tail end of her life - shared only by her cat, Portia. Her assessment of Sheba is shaken when she discovers a surprising indiscretion involving a 15 year old pupil (Andrew Simpson), but as Barbara writes in her diary, this secret could help bind Sheba to her, and perhaps lessen Sheba's dependence on her husband, an older man (Bill Nighy) and two early teenage children. However, Sheba doesn't seem to reciprocate the intensity of Barbara's feelings, and continues her ill-fated dalliance with the pupil, leading to a destructive fallout for all concerned.
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Notes On A Scandal
