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L’amour est une valse à contretemps. Ed Maurer se remet doucement de la blessure qui a mis fin à sa carrière de footballeur et se change les idées en donnant des cours de muscu au centre communautaire… sauf qu’il ne cesse d’y croiser Laurie Parker, l’irascible professeur de danse. Un jour, celui-ci le met au défi de le seconder lorsqu’il apprend qu’il doit remonter sur scène pour interpréter Casse-Noisette. Partageant la même passion pour la danse, tous deux vont se lier d’amitié avant de devenir amants. Mais la blessure d’Ed va se réveiller, mettant ainsi en péril leur amour naissant et leurs répétitions…

Ed Maurer se remet doucement de la blessure qui a mis fin à sa carrière de footballeur. Il hait son emploi de bureau, mais adore son travail de bénévolat au centre communautaire... sauf qu’il ne cesse d’y croiser Laurie Parker, l’irascible professeur de danse.

Autrefois célèbre danseur de ballet, Laurie donne des cours gratuits pour échapper aux machinations de sa mère. Lorsqu’ils doivent faire équipe pour un concours de danse, Ed et Laurie se découvrent amis, puis amants. Les démons du passé seront-ils plus forts que cet amour naissant ?

Ed Maurer’s life would be fine if he could just get Laurie Parker off his back. He’s bounced back, more or less, from the neck injury that permanently benched his semi-pro football career, and he volunteers now at a local community center. It’s just that every time he turns around, that damn professional dancer is in his way, hating Ed right back. But when a bargain Ed strikes at the center lands him as an assistant in Laurie’s ballroom dancing class, their perceptions of each other turn upside down. Both Ed and Laurie have heartbreak in their pasts, but somehow dancing together eases their individual pain. For Ed, dancing with Laurie becomes a way to reconnect with his body after losing football. For Laurie, partnering with Ed has erased some of his fear of performing and brought back joy to a sport he wasn’t sure he could ever truly love again.

As Laurie and Ed lose themselves in dance, their lives continue to spin around them: Ed’s injury makes it clear he’s nowhere near recovery, Laurie feels the pressure by friends and family to perform once more, and the community center that has become such an important part of both their worlds threatens to close. Alone, they haven’t had the strength or spirit to face what life has hurled at them. But as the turns of their personal paths lead them into the arms of love, Ed and Laurie begin to think that if they dance this dance together, they might be able to succeed.