Build a movie plot around this: What is Edwina's role at the school? Teacher
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During the middle of the American Civil War in 1863, injured Yankee soldier John McBurney is rescued from the verge of death by twelve-year-old Amy, a student at an all-girl boarding school in rural Mississippi. The headmistress, Martha Farnsworth, reluctantly agrees to take him in until he has built his health, under the condition that he is locked in the music room and kept under watch. Edwina, the schoolteacher, takes an immediate liking to John, as does Carol, one of the teenaged students.John begins to bond with each of the women in the house, including the live-in servant, Hallie. As he charms each of the women, the sexually-repressed atmosphere of the school becomes filled with jealousy and deceit, and the women begin to turn on one another. After Carol witnesses John kissing Edwina in the garden, she ties a blue rag to the school's entrance gate to alert the Confederacy of a Yankee soldier. When a band of Confederate soldiers pass by the school and go to investigate, Martha lies and convinces them John is part of the Confederacy.Martha also becomes secretly infatuated with John, and it is revealed through flashback that she had had an incestuous relationship with her deceased brother when he lived in the house. Martha considers keeping John at the school as a handyman, and later makes sexual advances toward him, but he declines them.Late one night, Edwina witnesses John kissing Carol in the hallway and, in a jealous rage, beats him with a candlestick, causing him to fall down the grand staircase and break his leg. Martha insists that he will die of gangrene as a result of his bone breaking the skin, and insists they amputate his leg in order to save him. The women carry him to the kitchen where they tie him to the table and feed him wine before Martha saws off his leg at the knee. John awakens to Amy standing by his bedside, and Martha and Edwina enter the room. When they reveal that his leg has been amputated, he goes into a fury, convinced that Martha went through with the amputation in...