AN EDUCATION is the story of a teenage girl's coming-of-age, set in Britain in the early 1960s on the cusp of the strait-laced, post-war period and the free-spirited decade to come. Directed by award-winning Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig (Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Italian for Beginners) from a screenplay by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) AN EDUCATION was adapted from a memoir by journalist Lynn Barber, which originally appeared in the literary magazine Granta. In the post-war, pre-Beatles London suburbs, Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a bright schoolgirl, is torn between studying for a place at Oxford and the more exciting alternative offered to her by a charismatic older man, David (Peter Sarsgaard).

Just as the family's long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into Oxford seems within reach, Jenny is tempted by another kind of life.

Will David be the making of Jenny or her undoing?