Malie's mom manages an ice cream parlor, but Malie's real love is ballet. She dreams of landing the lead in an upcoming production of Cinderella and dancing onstage while her boyfriend, Ethan, cheers from the audience. But Malie's mom is less than supportive. Then cute new boy Alonzo arrives from Italy. His true love is ice cream--gelato, to be exact. Alonzo offers Malie a deal, if she lets him help out at the parlor, she can take cance lessons form his mom, a famed ballerina. As Malie pirouettes between the parlor and the ballet studio, things start to spin our of control.