BOARDING SCHOOL

Summer of 1956. Curious American girl Deborah Collins (Kinski) arrives at the St. Clara's Boarding School in Switzerland. The school headmistress wants to use Deborah as a tool to discipline the other girls but she is revealed to be more experienced and daring in sexual matters. The girls now plot to lose their virginity with the boys in the private school across the lake. After Deborah finally has sex with Frederick Sinclair (Sundquist) in a romantic setting, she is expelled and the other girls feel that everything will be so sad and boring without her. She informs the headmistress that she will tell everyone that the school is run by disreputable teachers if she expels the other girls. She departs on a train after kissing Frederick goodbye.

After Deborah has sex with Frederick and is expelled from St. Clara's, she threatens to expose the school's disreputable teachers if the other girls are expelled, then departs by train after a goodbye kiss.

The ending underscores Deborah’s influence and independence as she stands up to authority, protecting her friends even as she leaves. Her departure signals the end of an era of excitement for the school, but also leaves a lasting mark of rebellion and self-discovery among her classmates. Deborah’s final act is both a personal liberation and a challenge to the status quo, emblematic of the film’s coming-of-age themes.