Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults.
Ricco's father-in-law turns out to be Rita's high school sweetheart. Meanwhile, Rita's battle at school with a 14-year-old know-it-all goes wrong.
A new student suffers socially when his parents demand a schoolwide ban on sugar. Meanwhile, Rita's estranged mother wants to get back in touch.
When a school talent show forces Rita to re-evaluate her uncompromising relationship to truth, she realizes she's been doing some lying of her own.
Rita finds porn on Jeppe's computer and fears he'll share what she knows firsthand is a destructive relationship to sex.
Rita protects a troubled kid with ADHD from vandalism charges but forgets to fight for her own son when he's the victim of hate crime bullying.
Rita finds drugs at school, but the accused student points Rita in the direction of her own son, Jeppe. Molly gets a job at a hospice.
When Rita takes over a second-grade theater production, her own life story begins to blend with the fairy tale the kids are playing out.
A lonely Rita starts hanging out with Rosa. But all hell breaks loose when Rosa realizes that Rita was the one her dad was having an affair with.
