Every year in the fall young Viennese as well as dance enthusiasts from all over the world enroll in a dancing school to learn the steps of the Waltz. With the discipline needed and with humor, the Elmayer dance school prepares teenagers and adults for the Viennese ball season. The path to a perfect waltz, however, is rocky. An amusing look behind the curtains of a Viennese dance school.

Elmayer has existed for almost a hundred years in Vienna as a place for formal dancing and good manners. Every year hundreds of teenagers attend the school to learn waltz, boogie, tango, rumba or the cha cha cha. Choreographies of most of the Viennese balls are practiced in this school.

This documentary follows Thomas Schäfer Elmayer, the dance instructor Tamiko Suzuki, the beginners Lisa and Christoph and the preparations for the big openings of the major balls of Vienna: the hunters' ball, the officers' ball and the famous Elmayerkränzchen (Elmayer Party) in the Viennese Hofburg, the former imperial palace.