The play tells about a girl who escaped from an orphanage with her friend and came to France to pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina.
With the development of events, the girl Felice, having lost her friend Victor, remains alone and wanders through night Paris. While wandering, he suddenly enters a theater where he admires a ballerina and it turns out that the guard catches him and accuses him of theft. The cleaner, whose name was Odette and who used to be a solo ballerina of that theater, protects the girl.
Odette takes the girl to her house. Felice also helped Odette in her work. Then, with the help of Odette, Felice is admitted to a ballet school near the Theater.
There, a school teacher, the world-famous ballet master Louis Meran, was looking for a suitable girl who would be able to dance in the "Nutcracker" ballet.
Instead of her classes, Felice goes on a date with Rudolph, the most handsome boy at the ballet school. Skipping several classes in the process. That's why Felice is left out of the group and has to go back to the orphanage.
In the orphanage, she dreams about her mother, who was also a ballerina. And Felice decides to go and fight for her dream role...
... Felice gets the role and dances in The Nutcracker.