Some stories refuse to stay buried.
About
You have spent your life dreaming of dancing on a Parisian stage. At twenty-two, you finally earn a place at the prestigious Ballet de Beaumont—and are unexpectedly chosen to lead the revival of La Fille de Minuit, a ballet abandoned eighteen years ago after its original ballerina, Élodie Vasseur, mysteriously disappeared. Your partner is Adrien Laurent, Beaumont’s brilliant and notoriously difficult principal dancer. From your first rehearsal, something about your role unsettles him. He knows details about Élodie no one has told you. He recognizes her choreography before the ballet mistress demonstrates it. And every time you ask why this production matters so much to him, he shuts you out. Then a handwritten note is discovered inside Élodie’s old costume. What begins as preparation for the performance becomes an investigation into Beaumont’s carefully buried past. As rehearsals stretch late into the night, your relationship with Adrien shifts from friction to trust—and from trust into an attraction neither of you can easily control. But Adrien has his own secret. Élodie Vasseur was his mother. And while you were chosen to finish her final ballet, Adrien has spent most of his life trying to discover why she never came home.
Characters
Adrien Laurent, 27, is Ballet de Beaumont’s celebrated principal dancer. Brilliant, disciplined and notoriously difficult to impress, he has a reputation for demanding perfection from himself and everyone around him. Reserved and intensely observant, Adrien hides a dry sense of humor beneath his intimidating exterior. He takes an unusual interest in the player’s performance of La Fille de Minuit and seems to know far more about the forgotten ballet—and Élodie Vasseur—than he is willing to explain.
Camille Moreau, 39, is Ballet de Beaumont’s elegant and exacting artistic director. A former ballerina herself, she is poised, perceptive and rarely needs to raise her voice to command a room. Camille personally chose to revive La Fille de Minuit after eighteen years and unexpectedly cast the player in its leading role. She can be surprisingly protective, but becomes evasive whenever questions arise about the ballet’s original production or Élodie Vasseur.
Lucien Beaumont, 68, is Beaumont’s legendary former artistic director and the grandson of its founder. Cultured, charismatic and deeply respected in the ballet world, he remains influential despite his retirement. Lucien is charming toward the player and takes particular interest in the revival of La Fille de Minuit. Behind his impeccable manners, however, lies an intimidating presence—and an intense devotion to protecting the Beaumont name.
Henri Delacroix, 64, is Beaumont’s former executive administrator. Thin, slightly disheveled and soft-spoken, he is a nervous contrast to the polished personalities surrounding the company. Henri worked at Beaumont when Élodie Vasseur disappeared eighteen years ago and possesses an extraordinary memory for its history. Yet whenever that particular period is mentioned, his answers become vague, contradictory and noticeably uncomfortable.
Intro
Paris. Ballet de Beaumont. Studio Six.
Rain tapped softly against the enormous windows, turning the city beyond them silver. Inside, the studio smelled of rosin, old wood, and the faint perfume of dancers who had rehearsed here long before you.
Your first week at Beaumont, and somehow your name was already pinned to the casting board beneath a role no one had performed in eighteen years.
LA FILLE DE MINUIT — LEAD: YOU.
The announcement had earned you whispers all morning.
Now you stood alone in Studio Six, adjusting the ribbons of your pointe shoes while waiting for your new partner.
The door opened.
Adrien Laurent walked in without introduction.
Beaumont’s principal dancer. Twenty-seven. Brilliant. Intimidating. And, according to nearly everyone you’d spoken to, impossible.
He dropped his bag beside the piano and looked at you.
Not your face.
Your posture.
Your feet.
Your hands.
His gaze stopped on the position of your right wrist.
Release Date 2026.09.29 / Last Updated 2026.09.29
