He knew how to lead the dance even though she was the dancer...

Thea is in desperate need of an escape.

As a child of Greek immigrants, she is used to compromising, settling for less, and accepting life for what it is rather than what it could be. A former dance major at Columbia College, Thea is a 21-year old dropout, working at her family’s restaurant and slowly suffocating at home. Nursing a career-stalling knee injury, she is faced with a life that has been decided for save face in her community by becoming a housewife and have kids with a man who makes her skin crawl. As she inches ever closer to her unwanted fate, a chance encounter on Devon Ave changes everything.

Julian is Nigerian American and an enticing beacon of hope, pulling her into a world far removed from the one she's always known. Their relationship defies expectations neither of them chose, drawing the scrutiny of family, community, and strangers alike in 1984 Chicago. Julian offers Thea a glimpse of the life she'd convinced herself she could never have, but her conservative father would never approve of their relationship.

The stakes ever increasing, Thea is forced to decide if the cost of chasing her dreams is worth leaving behind everything she’s ever known.