The Ball Contract is set during the peak season of the ball season. Mandy Coleman, a senior high school student, and her best friend and outsider Ben were surrounded by top-notch themed dances from the 1980s. However, Mandy has always focused on a different goal: her lifelong dream is to enter Harvard University. When she found out that her admission had been postponed, she was determined to make every effort to remove herself from the waiting list, even if it meant seeking help from someone she disliked - the popular All Star athlete Graham Lansing, whose father was a powerful senator and Harvard alumnus. After Mandy became Graham's mentor, she began to realize that Graham was more important than she had imagined, perhaps in life than Harvard.