Workers on construction sites in height at the beginning of last century, Josef sees his best friend disappear in strange circumstances. He then engages in a circus to join Alice, a young and beautiful trapeze artist with whom he has made up his mind to share a number of aerobatics.
Lord Dempsey, Alice's father, gradually gave way to his whims, attracted by the talent of young acrobat and the need to infuse new blood into his circus decline.
The day of the first approach while Nina, dark cuffed and adopted daughter of Lord Dempsey, identified in silence to a desire that grows between Alice and Joseph.
But as is often the case in the unpredictable world of the show, after the issue is not what one expects, and succeeds in this magical moment a tragedy that makes a beast Josef fair, and each character reveals his true face.