Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.

Three dance crews – one Latin American, one European and one Canadian – prepare to battle at the International Beat the World competition in Detroit. Along the way, they struggle with gambling debt, bad break-ups and their own egos. In the final showdown to become world champions they find that their lifelong hopes, dreams and even lives, are at stake.

从昏迷中醒来的杰克（塞德里克·凯尔斯 Cedric the Entertainer 饰）不知道自己究竟是何人，身在何处，但是身边的尸体和巨款告诉他，他可能被卷入了一起危险的事件中。一个名叫戴安娜（妮可莱特·谢里丹 Nicollette Sheridan 饰）的女人出现在了杰克的面前，她告诉汤姆自己是他的妻子，并且手脚麻利的处理了一团糟的现场。对于戴安娜的身份，杰克心存疑虑，而之后戴安娜的言行则使她的身份显得更加可疑。 离开戴安娜后，杰克遇见了自称是他女友的吉娜（刘玉玲 Lucy Liu 饰）。通过吉娜的只言片语，杰克知道了自己是一家游戏公司的守门人，但有过一次受骗经历的杰克对此保持着怀疑的态度。糟糕的是，杰克发现，有一些神秘的黑衣人似乎对自己的行踪异常关心。

After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.