A circus clown in unrequited love with the girl on the flying trapeze attempts to explain how he ended up onstage, pantless and pelted with trash, while lions ate the flying trapeze girl's lover.

A woman and her cat run away from an unspecified crime to live on the outskirts of dystopian Earth, a place littered with fear, stale popcorn, and ticket stubs to a circus performance that will never happen.