All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

He and she face the end of their relationship. Trying to understand how they got to this point, the two characters rebuild their story by reliving key moments of their life together. However, these glimpses of the times gone by are critical, detached, ironic, proving that sometimes nothing is more unpredictable than the past.