Throughout a mud highway, the circus truck involves a village. The tent goes up. Schoolboys run to the tent. Village ladies come and watch an acrobat roll a hoop throughout a tightrope. A lion leaps from the sting of 1 stool - throughout darkness - on to a different stool. A spot-toothed previous lady gazes at a goat on a good rope; her eyes are vast with curiosity. For 3 days the circus makes small ripples within the lifetime of this village. Municipal permits are required. At a toddy store, a soldier befriends the circus strongman; a pump attendant sits on a rock every day watching a village woman bathe and dry her hair. The dwarf brings again to the circus a watermelon bigger than his head. Within the movie's three days, we, the viewers, study the geography of the village: the banyan treewith leaves like clear movie, the shining water, the sunshine on the sand at sundown. When the circus leaves the village, it leaves us. The narrative says: The circus comes and leaves; life goes on.
