1976 (#2) - Peggy’s restlessness and the infatuation for professor Jack

The breakup between Stuart and Jennifer hurt the youngest of the couple's daughters, Peggy. The girl, who is living through the delicate period between adolescence and adulthood, is probably the most fragile of all the Brooks sisters and suffers more than the others from Jennifer's decision to move in with Bruce. Peggy can't forgive her mother and is looking for someone to vent to. Feeling distant both from her father Stuart, with whom she never had a great relationship in terms of communication, and from her sisters, who have now become women and taken by their marriages and personal affairs, it is natural then that Peggy has sought comfort in the most reassuring figure for her, her high school teacher Jack Curtis. she has always admired the culture and the calm and reassuring character of the man, so Peggy relies on the advice of Jack, who listens to her and supports her in this difficult moment. With Jack, Peggy is able to talk to him and explain all her problems and fears, convinced that the man has her interests at heart. The relationship between the two soon grows without the two being able to realize it and without Peggy or Jack realizing how their feelings for each other are changing and inevitably affect their lives. On Peggy's campus, meanwhile, rumors of their scandalous secret relationship are circulating more and more insistently and it doesn't take long before they realize the dangerous implications of their relationship. Jack, a respected mature man, much older than the girl, finds himself at the center of problems related to the alleged crime of exchange of sexual nature favours with one of his students. Peggy, worried and frightened by the accusations, runs away. In the end, however, it is Jack who chases after the girl, informing her that he has resolved the matter and that he has quit the institute; the man, moreover, admits to having feelings for the girl; and when Peggy confesses that she has fallen in love with him, the two realize that it is already too late, before they let themselves go into passion.