Founded in the 1930s by Indian nationalists hoping to create a new generation of leaders for an independent India, the Doon School-sometimes called “the Eton of India”-remains a major training ground for that country's political and industrial elite. The latest installment in renowned ethnographer David MacDougall's series of films on the school follows a group of twelve-year-old residents through their first term. The film focuses on the physical details and everyday rituals of the boys' academy, which fuses the colonial legacy of the British upper-class boarding school with more egalitarian ideals. MacDougall's steady attention reveals the particular processes by which boys from diverse regions begin to assimilate into the school's carefully constructed culture-within-a-culture, and documents the kinds of small dramas-homesickness, academic struggle, personal rivalry, budding comradeship-that mark the emotional territory of adolescence across cultural boundaries.