The Iife of 11-year-oId BiIIy EIIiot (Jamie BeIl) changes dramaticaIIy when one day he stumbIes upon a balIet class during his weekIy boxing Iesson. A coal miner's son, BiIIy finds himseIf demonstrating the kind of raw talent seIdom seen by the cIass' exacting instructor (JuIie Walters).