Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of Les Misrables? To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theatre company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe! Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe's, chronicles the drama director's last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage.