'You've got big dreams. You want fame. Well, fame costs, and right here's where you start paying...' dance teacher Lydia Grant warns the students of New York's celebrated dream factory, the High School for the Performing Arts.

Starring Debbie Allen as Lydia, Lee Curreri as Bruno, Erica Gimpel as Coco, Albert Hague as Shorofsky, Carlo Imperato as Danny, Carol Mayo Jenkins as Sherwood, Valerie Landsburg as Doris, Gene Anthony Ray as Leroy, Lori Singer as Julie, Morgan Stevens as Reardon, Connie Needham as Kelly Hayden

The school is vandalised and a suicide note, bearing no name, is found among the debris. Doris enlists the aid of her fellow students to try to find the writer of the note in order to prevent a tragedy.