Meet Albert Nuttall, aged eleven. Some would say that he is backward and at first glance, you'd agree - but Albert is special. He is a poet and a visionary who, as he grows into puberty and manhood, inspires unexpected depths of emotion in other people - notably his classmate, Primrose Macaveney, whose glorious future as a musical actress fails to materialize, and the lost and lonely young schoolteacher, Janet Partington.4 women, 5 men, 5 women or men
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