纽约剧团要重排《天鹅湖》，因前领舞Beth（薇诺娜•赖德 Winona Ryder 饰）离去，总监Thomas（文森特•卡索尔 Vincent Cassel. 饰）决定海选新领舞，且要求领舞要分饰黑天鹅与白天鹅。Nina（娜塔莉•波特曼Natalie Portman 饰）自幼练习芭蕾舞，在母亲的细心关照下，技艺出众。这次，她希望可以脱颖而出。然而，在竞争中，她发现心机颇重的Lily（米拉•库妮丝 Mila Kunis 饰）是自己的强劲对手。在选拔中，她的白天鹅表演的无可挑剔，但是黑天鹅不及Lily。她感到身心俱疲，回家还发现了背部的红斑与脚伤。她一个人找到总监，希望争取一下。总监趁机亲吻她，却被她强硬拒绝。结果，总监居然选了她。队友怀疑她靠色相上位。在酒会上，Beth甚至当众发泄。这种压力外加伤病，一直影响着她的发挥。总监启发她要释放激情，表现出黑天鹅的诱惑。在强大的心理暗示中，她似乎也滑向了黑天鹅的角色……

克拉拉（Kelly Sheridan 配音）的生日即将到来，伊丽莎白阿姨（凯思林·巴尔 Kathleen Barr 配音）送了她一只胡桃夹子，没想到却意外的将克拉拉卷入了一段充满了魔幻的传奇故事中去。

Budget:€65,000

In early 2013, it was announced that choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied, known as the man behind the ballet of Black Swan, would take over as director of the Paris Opera Ballet. Reset finds Millepied on the eve of his first gala with the Opera, designing and refining his inaugural choreography for the esteemed institution. As a film, Reset possesses of the same artistic assuredness as its subject as he blocks out the preliminary steps for his choreography. It explores various concepts of space simultaneously: the digital space, the space of the opera house (each scene opens with a declaration of which studio it’s in) and the space of the stage, the distance from stage right to stage left. It’s a portrait of a watershed moment for one of the ballet's oldest institutions and one of its brightest new stars, both on the cusp of great transition.