The setting is the fictional upper secondary school (VGS being an abbreviation of upper secondary school) Allerud in Oslo.
Here the incompetent principal (Christian Skolmen) has to improve the faltering application numbers.
He hires a competent inspector (Selome Emnetu) to improve the school, at the same time fearing that she might take over his job.
The rest of the main cast include schoolteachers (Marte Mørland, Anette Hoff, Øystein Bache, Herman Flesvig), other school staff (John Brungot, Lisa Tønne) and pupils (Amalie Stuve, Helle Ryg Eia, Johannes Gjessing).
[2] At the premiere, the series was given a "die throw" of 4 in Aftenposten [3] and in Stavanger Aftenblad;[4] 3 in Dagbladet[1] and 2 in VG.