- When, Mia, a dance teacher, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando, a would-be dancer who admires her from afar, persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.
- A romantic tale of two New Yorkers, Armando Ortiz, from the Bronx, and Mia Franklin, from the Upper East Side, and their unlikely meeting. The story tells how the two of them come together through their love of ballroom dancing. Mia is a beautiful and vivacious professional dancer. Armando works at the midtown Manhattan dance studio in exchange for lessons and fantasizes of a time when he will dance with Mia. But a tragic accident forever changes Mia's life. True to his heart, Armando dedicates himself, along with a group of colorful misfits, to help Mia overcome her painful challenges and dance once more.—Anonymous
- In New York City, Armando works part-time at his parents' Puerto Rican restaurant and is also a custodian at a dance studio, where he secretly practices dance moves. He befriends the beautiful Mia Franklin, a dancer who is in a relationship with the studio owner, Daniel. She catches Armando dancing alone, likes what she sees and gives him a few tips. They dance together briefly, but are discovered by Daniel. Trying to avoid an awkward situation, Mia leaves. When Armando realizes that Mia has left her scarf behind, he calls out to her from the studio's second floor window.
On the sidewalk below, Mia turns to cross the street, but is struck by a taxi. The accident renders her a paraplegic... paralyzed from the waist down. Upon learning of this, Daniel jilts her. Armando tries to boost Mia's confidence; he persuades her and other disabled people in the local rehabilitation center, including Nikki, a "punky" Latina, and Kenny, a wounded Iraq War veteran, to enter a wheelchair ballroom dancing competition where they are paired with able-bodied partners. Despite the opposition of his mother Isabel, Armando and Mia gradually begin a relationship and fall in love, while Armando's uncle Wilfredo falls in love with Chantelle, a disabled trans woman at the rehab center. Before the competition, Isabel, who has been maneuvering to get Armando hooked up with fellow Puerto Rican Rosa, does her best to undermine (even to the point of "casting spells") the relationship between him and Mia. Rosa, however, understands Armando's feelings for Mia and does not interfere.
On the night of the competition, Mia panics when she sees Daniel in the audience watching her, and instead of dancing, she rushes to her dressing room and begins to pack her things. Armando's mother rushes to Mia's dressing room and admits that she was wrong, telling Mia that Armando loves her and encourages her to reunite with Armando and win the competition.
Mia goes to Armando, tells him she loves him, and the two return to the competition and begin to dance. But just as the dance is at its height, Mia falls out of her wheelchair. As the stunned audience watches, Armando triumphantly picks her up and the two complete their dance with Armando holding Mia in his arms. The film ends without our knowing if they have won the competition.
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