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Seventeen-year-old ballet dancers Emmanuel Ortiz and Hàoyǔ Chao share a relentless rivalry as long-lived as it is fervent. Things only become more intense with the introduction of a high-stakes production, to which is attached a prestigious scholarship and life-changing ramifications for the winner. Desperate to escape his small town, Perafori, as well as the lingering shadows of the past, Emmanuel vows to sweep auditions by any means necessary, and resorts to intensive dieting while training. But an unexpected gesture of goodwill from Hàoyǔ leaves Emmanuel extending his own olive branch in the weeks leading up to auditions. The two strike up the unlikeliest of bonds, and Emmanuel discovers Hàoyǔ is being eaten alive by secrets of his own. With their dreams on the line, a winner-takes-all finale, long-buried, tragic truths coming to light, and an offer to run away forever, Emmanuel must decide where and how he stands with Hàoyǔ in this world, en pointe.