Misty Copeland is a widely known for her trailblazing a path as a black ballerina in the American Ballet Theatre. The first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the entire history of ABT. Other ballerinas of color helped lay the way for Misty to dance ballet professionally and one of these was Raven Wilkinson. Raven became a mentor to Misty when they met and Misty tells both her story as she goes through significant changes in her career where she gets promoted to principal dancer but also Raven's story as she goes through a crucible as a black woman in ballet in order to dance facing threats from the klan when her ballet company went to the southern US on tour, as well as discrimination in other aspects of her work. Misty tells their stories because as she says Raven became the Wind at Her Back.