Milan, 1972.
Gloria Altieri lives and breathes for dance. Every step, every sacrifice, every scar has been made in pursuit of the dream to shine on stage. But beyond the spotlight, her life is a script written by others: a strict father, a silent mother, a "safe" marriage to a man who cannot set her soul on fire.
The day she realizes that, if she continues like this, she will lose herself, Gloria faces a choice: live the life everyone expects of her, or summon the courage to dance beyond the rules.
A life on tiptoe is a story of stifled passions, dreams of freedom, and the determination to follow one's heart-a story of a woman who must risk falling in order to learn how to truly fly.