After a devastating personal tragedy, the young Jacob Jankowski runs away to the circus, where he encounters a menagerie of characters, both human and animal, who captivate and trouble him at the same time. There, he falls in love with a beautiful performer, Marlena, who happens to be married to the charming, but cruel, ringmaster, August. This love triangle, which also includes an elephant, sets the plot in motion like a runaway train. Disaster will and does happen. Gruen places each of her characters into their own personal performance rings, and has multiple story lines going on at the same time. One track chronicles Jacob as he lives out his last lonely years in a nursing home, remembering the glorious days of his former circus life.

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