Twelve-year-old daydreamer Sam Curtain auditions for Miss Jessop's Drama Academy, where he finds his overactive imagination might actually be an advantage.
Sam returns to Miss Jessop's, and starts learning to express his vulnerabilities - especially when his new rival, Oscar, is pretending everything is brilliant with his amazing Dad.
Despite Miss Jessop's warning, Sam uses 'method acting' to audition for an ad, and discovers copying someone else isn't the answer - he needs to work out who he is first.
Sam desperately wants to prove his independence, but after cheering Fiadh on at her wheelchair race, he gets totally lost on his way home. Could Miss Jessop be the one to save him?
After Sam scores a line in a TV show, he starts getting a really big head - and when the kids try to help Tadhg and Miss Jessop on a date, Sam's head is in danger of exploding.
Sam is demoted to helping out backstage at the end-of-year show for Ethan's opus. But when a lawyer arrives with a cease-and-desist order, it looks like the show might NOT go on?