16-year-old Emily (Emma) is devastated when she's sent away to a top-notch boarding school in Maine to pursue something that she hates more than anything: ballet, due to her father's untimely and horrific death 3 years ago. However, she soon learns that she is talented, gifted even- and doomed to forever remain an outcast among the thousands of jealous, vengeful ballet beauties attending the school. To make matters worse, she soon receives blood-chilling death threats from an anonymous killer, sending her on the run. Little does she know that her pursuer is closer than she thinks...