The heroine, Raya Green (Rutina Wesley), is a smart, intellectually ambitious girl of Jamaican descent who returns to her Toronto public school after three years at a boarding school where she was the only nonwhite student.

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But he was such a poor student that his parents sent him to a strict boarding school, where the students were assigned cadet drills.

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