Circus artist Leni Peickert is planning the Circus of the future. She wants to show the animals authentically, and not dressed up as people. The artists are to increase the degree of difficulty in their work. But her plan goes awry.
In a room where time seems to have slowed down for a moment, a mother rests on a couch while a baby sleeps and the other daughter draws and asks for attention, until she is swallowed by the couch.
Atop Doon hill, in Aberfoyle, Scotland, stands such a tree, where history tells us that in 1692, the Reverend Robert Kirk, the seventh son of a seventh son, a scholar and minister of religion, predicted his own fate.
Two musicians become intrigued with a Deaf woman whose idea for music is a whole different tune: awareness and acceptance before one can fall in love.
