Stetson Tate is a 12-year-old student who is upset and gets in trouble. His single mother dies, after which his father brings him to an elite music academy, the fictional National Boychoir Academy as a boarding school, because Stet can sing well, and because the father has a new wife and two daughters, and keeps it from them that he has a son from another woman. Stet is admitted due to his talent but also the generous amount of money the father pays them.