Elite teens from around Australia find placement in Arcadia House, a hostel in Sydney. Shy island girl Ava must cope with a new, cool music school, a haunted bedroom & her desire to make friends despite her crippling shyness.

Mick and Vee resort to a team-building scavenger hunt to get the kids to bond but Lily escapes the event and heads out to find the Sydney she remembers from her early years with her mother.

When an opportunity to further develop her friendship with Jasmin leads to an opportunity to sing with a famous DJ, Ava must face the question of how far she is prepared to go to succeed in this new city.

Ava meets cool roller-derby-chick Macy who encourages her, Zoe and Lily to join her roller derby 'fresh meat' trials; Dylan gets into deeper waters with Ryan and the lads; and Levi tries to charm back Zoe.

The dream draws closer for Zoe when she learns about an Australian Athletics Federation (AAF) high altitude training camp in Colorado, and for Levi when he learns that his grand final game will be watched by an AFL Scout.