In Naples's Ponticelli district, a neighborhood controlled by the Camorra, an organization called Maestri di Strada sends teachers, youth workers, and psychologists into the lives of young people the school system has already written off. Founded in the early 2000s by former teacher Cesare Moreno, the group works with more than 500 kids, using workshops and one-on-one mentoring instead of grades or discipline. The film follows seventeen-year-old Francesco, once prone to fighting and skipping class, now training to become a chef with the help of his mentor Maria, and fifteen-year-old Concita, who found confidence through a theater group and now dreams of acting or fashion design. Interviews and observational footage inside the organization's headquarters, a rundown former school building, show a team working with almost no government funding, tolerated and even respected by Camorra-linked families because they help their relatives too. The Street Teachers' ambition is bigger than Ponticelli: they want their approach copied in schools across Italy.