A teenage girl, Terri, has a passion for music. School's out and she wants to spend the summer at a performing-arts academy in L.A. She is encouraged by her mother and brother but has a hard time convincing her father, who is a little rough around the edges. Things go bad when she sneaks her brother Paul out to a concert and they both end up in a car crash. Terri survives but Paul doesn't. Devastated, Terri decides to quit music, but with a little encouragement and a sly plan from her family (except her father), she decides to go to L.A. Nobody's nice to her at the academy at first, especially Robin and her friends, but eventually she makes friends with Kiwi and Denise and starts dating Jay. While she's there she learns that her brother is the reason she got accepted. Haunted by his death, her musical talents intensify.