Antonio Banderas stars as ballroom dance instructor Pierre Duianine, hired by an inner city high school principal (Alfre Woodward) to supervise detention for the school’s most troubled students. The kids, full of anger and attitude, want nothing to do with Pierre and his classical moves. But when he takes a genuine interest in their hip-hop dancing – and the kids themselves – a new style of dancing is borne that takes the students all the way to the national competition… and to finally believing in themselves.