Douglas Davies, the school rebel, has found himself in a predicament: he has to take his important GCSE exams in 4 months but hasn't been paying attention in class for the past 5 years. Against his will, his Headteacher and mother force him to take tutor lessons from another pupil in his school in the hopes that he might actually listen to somebody his age. The person who's introduced to him as his 'peer tutor' appears to be a dull, irritable boy with fire-ginger hair. How will Douglas, the academic disaster, cope with having to be around an awkward, socially inept nerd almost constantly?