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Young and incredibly talented dancer Yulia Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a "lucky ticket": she is noticed by former ballet dancer Potocki, who predicts a future as a great ballerina worthy of the country's main stage. However, in order to become a diamond, even the most outstanding diamond needs to be cut, and the path to the legendary stage of the Bolshoi Theater for Yulia lies through the walls of a ballet school, where an even more wayward teacher, Galina Mikhailovna Beletskaya, takes care of the unruly provincial girl. Becoming a prima will require incredible self-denial, and Yulia will have to see for herself that the big ballet is not only the whiteness of tutus, the gold of boxes and the sliding of silk ribbons...