Having no idea Billy was still dancing, Jackie and Tony become angry. Wilkinson is angry that Tony's stupidity has impacted Billy and deprived him of the biggest opportunity of his life and tells Jackie about the missed audition. Billy is nervous but excited for the audition however, when his brother is involved in an altercation at the picket line and ends up getting arrested, Billy misses his audition. Wilkinson encourages Billy to go in for an open audition to study at the Royal Ballet School in London, training him privately in the evenings. He forbids Billy from going to classes, but by now Billy has a passion for dancing and cannot quit, taking lessons privately with the ballet teacher, Sandra Wilkinson, an unfulfilled middle-class woman in town. He thinks all ballet dancers are effeminate, and fears there is something wrong with his son. He joins the class without telling his father, but when Jackie finds out the truth he is absolutely furious. Jackie feels that it's time for Billy, his youngest son, to start acting more like a man and sends him to boxing lessons, but Billy is immediately drawn to the ballet class taking place on the other side of the gym. His oldest son, Tony, is one of the union's chief bullies, and none of the striking men dare return to work or cross the picket line for fear of reprisals. He has money woes-a coal miner, Jackie is out on strike with his co-workers to protest union troubles. Living in gritty and run-down Everington, in County Durham in the north of England, Jackie Elliot is still grieving for his wife who passed away a year before. 1984 is a tough year for the Elliot family.
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