Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio) is a champion-caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps." Fran (Tara Morice) is a novice dancer and a bit of an ugly duckling who asks to be Scott's partner after his unconventional style causes his regular partner (Gia Carides) to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, "there are no new steps!"