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A cultured stranger joins a French circus as a clown whose act is to be slapped. Betrayed by his friend and former wife, he falls in love with horse rider Consuelo, but her father plans to marry her to a wealthy baron. The clown poisons Consuelo to prevent the marriage, then takes poison himself.
A mysterious intellectual joins a French circus as a clown and falls in love with Consuelo, who loves the jockey Begano. Pantaloon disrupts plans to marry Consuelo to Count Mancini, but when he confesses his love, she rejects him and leaves with Begano.
Surveyed by Someone in Grey (as well as another, anonymous character who is never leaving the stage), Man passes through life (in the grey world where all things are of colour grey) from birth to death as a blind man, unable to see what comes to him next. First he is destitute, then rises to affluence, and finally hits the bottom again. Cursing the anonymous witness to his tribulations, he imagines himself as a hapless warrior who loses everything in his strife against the unfathomable, evil forces. "I am armless now", he exclaims, before the candle (a symbol of life) dies and darkness falls.
A cultured stranger joins a French circus as a clown whose act is to be slapped. Betrayed by his friend and former wife, he falls in love with horse rider Consuelo, but her father plans to marry her to a wealthy baron. The clown poisons Consuelo to prevent the marriage, then takes poison himself.
A mysterious intellectual joins a French circus as a clown and falls in love with Consuelo, who loves the jockey Begano. Pantaloon disrupts plans to marry Consuelo to Count Mancini, but when he confesses his love, she rejects him and leaves with Begano.
Surveyed by Someone in Grey (as well as another, anonymous character who is never leaving the stage), Man passes through life (in the grey world where all things are of colour grey) from birth to death as a blind man, unable to see what comes to him next. First he is destitute, then rises to affluence, and finally hits the bottom again. Cursing the anonymous witness to his tribulations, he imagines himself as a hapless warrior who loses everything in his strife against the unfathomable, evil forces. "I am armless now", he exclaims, before the candle (a symbol of life) dies and darkness falls.