Jonathan von Mering

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

A Filipino musician discovers an unauthorized copy of his song made by a rival content creator, leading to a multilingual and multicultural musical duel over social media.