Life on Tap is the story of a frustrated ballerina who meets a mysterious tap dancer who enchants her with tap. The student - a sensational overnight protégée - falls in love with tap and he falls in love with himself when he sees him taking over his persona. Together they escape to a fantasy world of color and rhythm until a mysterious painting causes one of them to slip farther away from reality than either of them ever expected. Slowly they realize that although they can escape life, they can never escape each other because the beats and rhythms they once danced together are forever a part of them both.