Aspiring ballerina Hijiri Masumi is chosen to stand in for the company's leading ballerina in a Moscow production when the girl suffers a devastating injury.
Masumi dreams of becoming a beautiful prima ballerina and has just won a place in the National Ballet School; however, a handsome foreign student arrives that distracts her from her goals.
Masumi, trying to make it in the competitive world of ballet, gets a chance to audition for a lead role with the Bolshoi, but first she must defeat new rival Sidney Eglund in a dance-off in front of famous ballerina Margaret Fonteyn.
