Every Russian dancer dreams of being part of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, but the way is demanding and full of obstacles. Moscow, 1986, the heat of Perestroika. Borya is an average, clumsy teenager who is miraculously admitted to the legendary Bolshoi Ballet School. The boy is convinced that he will become a ballet dancer like his father, Mikhail Baryshnikov... but is he really his father?
Every Russian dancer dreams of being part of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, but the way is demanding and full of obstacles. Moscow, 1986, the heat of Perestroika. Borya is an average, clumsy teenager who is miraculously admitted to the legendary Bolshoi Ballet School. The boy is convinced that he will become a ballet dancer like his father, Mikhail Baryshnikov... but is he really his father?