In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Longtime best friends Sid and Jonesie are dumped by their respective girlfriends. Both without a living situation, they decide to become "bromates", bros who are roommates, which puts their relationship to the ultimate test.