Botchan is from Tokyo in Japan. He becomes a teacher and moves from the big city to a small town on an island. He thinks teaching high school students is easy, but life in the country town is different. Teaching is difficult. His students are difficult. They play tricks on him. Botchan has many problems at school -- and many questions. He does not know who to believe. He does not who his friends are. Follow Botchan as he learns good from bad and right from wrong.

Botchan is a novel written in 1906. It is considered to be on of the most popular novels in Japan, read by most Japanese during their childhood. A Tokyoite known only as Botchan thinks teaching a bunch of high-school yokels in the sticks will be simple, after all, they're essentially living in yesteryear. But our narrator soon learns that he is surrounded by schemers and tricksters and that the teaching job that should have been a walk in the park is more like a walk off a plank. Can he survive and make it back to civilization on Moral Fibre alone?