After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles goes on a quest for a new life by enrolling in Truth University, an historically Black college in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo a beautiful co-ed are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his innovative, street-style dance moves to help win the highly-coveted National Step Show Championship.