When eighteen-year-old Theodore Ashford moves from England to New York City, it isn’t framed as anything dramatic or disruptive. His parents simply want him to have the strongest possible academic path toward an Ivy League future, and the transition to an elite American private school is part of that plan. Theodore arrives already disciplined, composed, and quietly self-contained — not because anyone forced him to be, but because structure has always made sense to him. He expects to adjust easily, excel academically, and remain largely untouched by anything socially unpredictable.