Niko starts from rock bottom to build a toy empire using his genius engineering skills. He meets a cold, pragmatic ballerina who needs a mechanical prop for her show.
In 1890 St. Petersburg,25-year-old Niko(Nikolai Volkov/Niko) was a master toymaker who was fired from the Royal Workshop for making a mechanical bear that accidentally hugged the Czar too hard. Penniless, he opened a tiny stall on a frozen street corner, determined to build the most amazing clockwork heart ever seen.