Film addict Dawson is making an amateur movie with his friends Pacey and Joey when filming is interrupted by the arrival of Jen, the beautiful granddaughter of Dawson’s next-door neighbor. Pacey develops a crush on Tamara Jacobs, an older woman he meets at the video shop, but is stunned to discover that she is his new English teacher. As the friends begin high school together, Joey discovers Dawson’s mother, Gail, is having an affair, a fact that neither Dawson or his father, Mitch, know.