Alissia Alexandrov, now an elderly woman looks back on what was the hardest time in her life- her teenage years. She was merely sixteen when loving grandfather Egor had to send her away to live with her professional dancer and teacher mother whom she has never met. As if starting a new life in London wasn't enough, tragedy strikes when she is diagnosed with a mystery illness that just seems to be getting worse and worse... Will life at the Royal Academy flow gracefully or will it be destroyed by the fatigue which just never seems to go away?