Behind the curtain of one of the most ambitious ballet productions in modern history lies a three-year journey of cultural fusion and human endurance.
The film opens in the historic workshops of Saint Petersburg, where legendary Russian masters of set and costume design begin the painstaking work of bringing Yukari Saito's vision to life: a new version of The Nutcracker for The Tokyo Ballet.
The camera captures every stage of this creative birth: from the intimate quiet of Russian ateliers, where intricate costumes and monumental sets are made by hand, to the "drama of the creators" - the arguments and the shared obsession with perfection that unite the Japanese and Russian teams.
The climax comes not in the rehearsal studio but in an unprecedented feat of logistics: moving tons of scenery across the entire Eurasian continent - along the Trans-Siberian Railway, through the vast Russian landscape, to the Sea of Japan and the ports of Yokohama.
