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