Supermodel, Sports Illustrated cover girl, and tsunami survivor, Petra Nemcova brings six young women to New York City. All have the potential to become supermodels, but only one of them will be awarded a contract with one of the world's largest modeling agencies.

Over the course of five frenetic weeks in Manhattan, the six girls - two from the USA, one Australian, a Czech, a Brit, and a Brazilian - will learn everything there is to know about modeling and we will come to know everything about them: their hopes, dreams and expectations.

Petra will mentor and coach her six hopefuls, preparing them for the brutally hard world that is the life of the top model. The girls must progress physically and emotionally, they must prove themselves to be mature enough to handle the pressures and temptations that will undoubtedly come their way. It's anxious, it's pressured, and every week there's a photo shoot to test the girls' progress.

At the end of a month's preparation comes New York Fashion Week and a final evaluation by a top panel of experts from Next Magazine. Which of the six girls has got what it takes to be awarded a modeling contract with Next and have their dreams turned into reality?