"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life..." Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of "special girls" at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the creme de la creme, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extracurricular activities they will never forget. But the price they pay is their undivided loyalty...