Rene Lemieux

The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.

Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly skilled assassin who cannot be traced.

Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.