Lucy Gardiner felt like she was put on earth to dance. Amid the chaos of her Massachusetts upbringing --- her loving, erratic brothers; her overburdened mother --- 12-year-old Lucy is discovered and cast on a new dance reality show. When its pop star judge, Bruise, takes an obsessive interest in her raw talent, Lucy’s life suddenly becomes what she’s always wanted. Or has it? In the whirlwind of talk shows, movie sets and extravagant Hollywood parties of her teenage years, Lucy slowly grows more alienated from her family. And when a series of youthful mistakes comes back to haunt her, she finds she must free herself from Bruise’s world of fame and all its trappings, and decide where her home truly is.