East Los High isn't your average school. Dance, gender, love, and puzzle have reached the center of this inner city school in East LA where two teenage cousins--Jessie, a 16-year-old virgin and Maya, a troubled run away with a violent ago --fall inlove with Jacob, a popular football player. Using this forbidden love triangle, Jessie Maya and also Jacob, along with their friends must face truetolife decisions during a single magnificent and breathtaking year that may indicate their lives indefinitely.