Donnor Harings Barron has everything going for him. He's a successful man, nearly straight out of college, who has already landed a job as a high school Chemistry teacher. Everything in his life seems to finally be tying itself together, until he's thrown a curveball by his school's administration. This particular year, Dr. Barron is chosen as one of the main hosts of a program in which students and hosts alike write documentations about important occurrences in their pasts that stand out as substantial obstacles, and how they overcame those obstacles, or how they failed trying; thus, defining who they are as a human being. Future generations of children would have these documentations to look to for vital advice in their own lifetimes, but Dr. Barron quickly finds that he may need some advice of his own, as his life's story isn't yet completely written, and the chapters are unraveling before his very inquisitive eyes.