خلاصه داستان : فیلم بر اساس زندگی “لی کانکسین” ساخته شده است. در سن یازده سالگی، او از یک دهکده فقیرنشین چینی به پکن برده می شود تا رقص باله را بیاموزد …

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.