At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
| Directing | Otto Bathurst | Director |
| Writing | Amanda Coe | Screenplay |
| Writing | Meredith Daneman | Book |
| Production | Michele Buck | Executive Producer |
| Production | Celia Duval | Producer |
| Production | Damien Timmer | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Florian Hoffmeister | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Jinx Godfrey | Editor |
| Art | Kate Evenden | Art Direction |
| Art | Jo Kornstein | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Amy Roberts | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Stuart Conran | Prosthetic Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jacqueline Fowler | Makeup Department Head |
| Sound | Andie Derrick | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Catherine Hodgson | Sound Effects Editor |
| Sound | Martin Jensen | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Forbes Noonan | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Catherine Thomas | Foley Editor |
| Sound | Virginia Thorn | Dialogue Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fiona Matthews | Hairstylist |
