Swan

by Kyoko Ariyoshi

While Hijiri Masumi's school is performing in Moscow before the leaders of the Bolshoi Ballet, one of the leading ballerina's suffers an injury. The future of Japanese ballet hangs on the performance of an injured dancer--unless Masumi can take her place.

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