Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Latina ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. She heads for New York City, where she is forced to work in a seedy strip club to make ends meet. Amaryllis quickly becomes the strip club's hottest attraction and falls in love with her best customer, who wants to take Amaryllis to live with him abroad. Finally winning an audition for a Broadway production, Amaryllis must now decide between true love and realizing her dream of becoming a star.