Sarah (Julia Stiles) is a white suburban teenager, who has a strong passion and ability for ballet dancing. Sarah's life is shattered when she discovers that her mother had been involved in a fatal car accident, whilst trying to reach her daughter's dance audition on time. Sarah fails the audition, and after her mother's funeral, gives up her love of dancing and goes to live with her estranged musician father (Terry Kinny) in a predominant black community in Chicago. Sarah manages the change in culture quite well, and befriends a black teenage mother, Chenille (Kerry Washington) and her brother, Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas), with whom she forms a romantic relationship with. Derek soon realizes that Sarah is being haunted by...