You can't do it!

Is theater the better circus? Is what I’m doing right? And for whom am I actually playing the role of my life?

Just before her performance, young acting student Elvira is visited by her ancestors: As if in an eternal ring, circus legends from various eras wander between dream and reality – Siegfried and Roy, a clown, the sawed-in-half woman, and family members like her great-grandfather Carl Krone, her mother Christel, and her tigers, lions, and horses.

While the performers try to outdo each other with anecdotes from long-past shows – like how Roy was almost eaten by a tiger or how the sawed-in-half woman faced circular saws – Elvira begins to lose track of who is training whom, who holds the power, and who submits, as the line blurs between fun and entertainment and bitter reality. In a family constellation, Elvira tries to figure out who is really pulling the strings and for whom she is playing the role of her life.

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