Barbie stars as Genevieve, a princess with eleven sisters: Ashlyn, Blair, Courtney, Delia, Edeline, Fallon, Hadley, Isla, Janessa, Kathleen and Lacey. Each princess is beautiful and different, but the twelve sisters have one thing in common: they all upendo to dance. They live in a ngome with their widowed father, King Randolph. Randolph loves his daughters deeply, but at times can't understand them and feels that they should act zaidi like "proper" princesses. The girl's adventurous and free-spirited natures are viewed as "unladylike" and "unproper" kwa other members of the royal society and often leads them to make rude maoni about the princesses. This both disheartens and hurts Randolph. Believing his daughters need a woman's touch, the king summons his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to the ngome to help raise them. However, Rowena has her own plans, which includes getting rid of Randolph and his daughters so she can take over the kingdom.

Sensing trouble, Genevieve and her sisters try to reason with Randolph, but due to Rowena's interference, the king doesn't believe them and says they must listen to his cousin. Attempting to break the girls' spirits, Rowena makes the princesses' lives miserable kwa stripping the ngome of everything they upendo and having them practice "proper" behavior, like fanning. She even banishes dancing and imba from the castle. Sad with the changes, the princesses find comfort in their mother's inayopendelewa story, which tells of a magical kingdom where dhahabu flowers grant wishes and a princess could dance at an Enchanted pavilion for three nights. They later discover that the story is true. Lacey, the youngest, sees that her lily matches the lily on the floor. Genevieve tells everyone to find a match on their book to a stone. Genevieve tries dancing from stone to stone; it doesn't work. She then tries dancing from oldest to youngest (which is actually stone-to-stone, only in an alternating up-down pattern); Lacey's stone doesn't work so she twirls three times, like the character in the story. They enter the magical kingdom and end up dancing the night away.

Lacey, the youngest, falls and scrapes her knee. Genevieve dabs water from a nearby kisima, chemchemi on the cut and it instantly heals, revealing that the water there is magic. The inayofuata day, the girls are tired and the duchess finds their new dancing shoes worn through. Suspicious, Rowena believes that they were out dancing with princes. Meanwhile, the royal cobbler, mshona viatu and Genevieve's upendo interest, Derek, comes to fix their shoes and sees that they are covered in dhahabu dust. Genevieve dances on the mchoro in the pavilion outside, (the same dance that opens the magical door hidden in their bedroom floor), that is identical to the one in their bedroom. While together, Genevieve asks Derek to find out what Rowena's true intentions are. The duchess continues to deprive them of any enjoyment and prevents them from visiting au imba to their father, who has suddenly fallen ill. The doctor gives Rowena a tonic for Randolph, which she quickly disposes of, revealing that she is poisoning him.

That night, Rowena has her footman, Desmond, stand guard outside the princesses' room to find out where they go. The sisters sneak back to the magic realm and dance well into the night again. Meanwhile, Derek discovers that Rowena is stealing heirlooms from the ngome and dealing with an apothecary (presumably for the poison). He hurries back to warn Genevieve and her sisters. The inayofuata morning, the sisters are still exhausted and Rowena demands to know why. When she gangs up on Lacey, the girls tell her the truth, but she doesn't believe them and forces them into servitude. That night, she demands the truth again, but they tell her the same story. This makes Rowena even angrier and she locks them in their room, blaming them for Randolph's failing health. Hurt kwa her cruel words and due to a misinterpreted conversation between the king and Rowena, the girls can't help but feel that she's right and that their father would be better off without them.

Heartbroken and not knowing what to do, the princesses return to the magical kingdom. A furious Rowena finds the sisters gone the inayofuata morning. That evening, Derek finally makes it back to the castle, but discovers that the princesses are missing. Determined to find Genevieve, he sneaks into their bedroom. Remembering Genevieve's dance pattern, Derek enters the magic realm and reports his findings to the girls. Unfortunately, Rowena learns how to enter the magic realm, due to her monkey, Brutus. Stealing some flowers that can give wewe whatever wewe want, she quickly returns to the ngome and has Desmond destroy the mchoro that forms the gateway, trapping the sisters and Derek in the magical kingdom.

Thinking she has disposed of the princesses, Rowena then tricks the weak King Randolph into making her uigizaji Queen until he recovers. Trapped in the magic realm, the girls and Derek try to find a way out. Genevieve eventually learns that it is only kwa dancing with Derek that she can open another entrance back to their world. As they dance, the couple and the rest of the princesses float up into the sky and return home. However, this new gateway leads to their mother's dance pavilion (that is identical to the pavilion in the magic realm) instead of their bedroom. Once back, the sisters and Derek discover that Rowena is now queen, new guards (hired kwa Rowena) have been ordered to capture any stray princesses, and the princesses overhear that their father is dying.

Using their diverse talents, the princesses disable the guards and enter the ngome to confront Rowena. Ignoring Genevieve's orders, Lacey enters the ngome to help, but is seized kwa Desmond. Derek and Genevieve defeat the Enchanted suits of armor that defend Rowena (using her magical flowers that she aliiba from the entrance to the Magic Pavilion), but the duchess has the upper hand when Desmond drags in Lacey. Noting that Genevieve is the chanzo of her sisters' resistance against her, Rowena uses the flowers to wish for Genevieve to dance forever and ever and ever. But as the maua, ua dust comes towards her, Genevieve produces her shabiki and blows it back at Rowena, who starts dancing instead. Desmond soon joins her while trying to help and the two villains dance their way out of the ngome and down the valley.

It is revealed that Lacey has saved some water from the magical Pavilion. She gives it to her father and thereby heals the dying king. Randolph explains that Rowena was poisoning him and apologizes to his daughters for not believing them. He now truly understands them, and realizes they will do great things and be wonderful princesses kwa just being themselves just like their mother told him. The film ends with everything made right as Genevieve and Derek celebrate their wedding.