Plot Outline:
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A boy watches his father, a clown in a circus, taken away to fight in the way. Years later he seeks to save his father from a brutal life working the mines, but instead witnesses his death. As an adult he becomes a "sad" clown for a small circus and finds himself falling for a trapeze artist who happens to be the owner's mistress. He cruelly beats her, leading to a confrontation that sets the young man down a path of revenge and madness. -- Chris Kavan
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