Andrew, professeur de danse, a du mal à maintenir son studio de danse à flot. Arrive Catherine, qui s'inscrit à certains de ses cours mais amène avec elle beaucoup de bagages.
Set in an African slum, an ambitious market girl meets and falls in love with a boy from the other side of town and tries to cross the class divide, but the social gap is over powering and starts a chain of event that neither of them is prepared for.