Beautiful and heartbreaking, Margot brings to the screen the glamorous and turbulent life of Britain’s foremost international ballet superstar. Married to Roberto ‘Tito’ Arias, a Panamanian politician and notorious philanderer, ballerina Margot Fonteyn is considered past her prime when she encounters Rudolf Nureyev, a Russian dancer 20 years her junior. Their romance is doomed, but her career is revitalised and they become the Royal Ballet’s golden couple.