23-year-old Jacob suffered a hardship in life: Both his parents died, he was impoverished, and he was forced to work in a veterinary school. Later, he became the veterinarian of the "Benzini Brothers, the largest circus in the world" and began a difficult tour. In his wandering life, he personally experienced the terrifying years of the Great Depression in the United States. Inside the circus, he also witnessed the alternate performances of freaks and clowns, as well as the joys, sorrows and sorrows on the back of the stage.
For Jacob, the circus is his salvation, but it is also the purgatory on earth, the place of his dreams, and the beginning of displacement. He fell in love with the circus star Malena-the beautiful and pitiful Malena had been married by mistake to the circus director August, who was handsome in appearance and cruel at heart. An elephant named Rosie is a magic weapon that the circus owner puts his family in bankruptcy, but he can't understand even the simplest commands. Whispering, crying, and howling, Rosie was tortured daily under Auguste's brutal elephant hook. Jacob Malena and Rosie, the two of them are like dancing, leaping, somersaulting, and turning in the glorious moments. In order to struggle, cannibalize, survive, rely on each other and trust each other, they are looking for a romantic relationship together. Another terrifying way out. And this has become a secret that Jacob has kept for seventy years
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