Adaption is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. A strict devotee of Darwin`s evolution principle, Lohmark views education as survival of the fittest: classifying her pupils as biological specimens and scorning her colleagues for indulging in `favourites`. However, as people move West in search of work and opportunities, the school`s future is in jeopardy and the Lohmark is forced to face her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive.