This extraordinary picture does not fit into any genre. It is a freak of nature, a acinematic oddity like no other. It took considerable bravery and imaginatio, or perhaps a bliss of ignorance as to the implication of one's actions (common to the artists), to make a film in which for the most part people recite the alphabet. The primer symbolises a key to the people communicate and perceive the world and traditions. The film is premeated with ugliness and lifelessness, which are extraordinary lit and beautifully captured by Jerzy Zielinski's camera. Tradition is dead, communication between people has become ossified in its banal formats, we all know the letters of the alphabet but cannot put them into sentences which would express out true selves.

昭和中期、日本がまだ夢見ていた頃、街から街へと人々を楽しませて回る「三日月サーカス」という小さなサーカス団があった。そこには仁太と渡という空中ブランコに憧れる兄弟がいた。しかし、不慮の事故により足を傷めた仁太は、夢がかなわぬままサーカス団を去ってしまう。