Vicky Page meets Julian Craster by chance on the terrace at Monte Carlo. She discovers that he is to write the music for 'the red shoes', a new ballet in which she will dance the leading role for the first time. The red shoes is written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressburger in Technicolor. Starring Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine , Albert Basserman , Robert Helpmann , Ludmilla Tcherina and Esmond Knight.