Mia and Mirjam are two 14-year-olds who live in a very dreary little town. Though not especially grown-up, they're both trying. Mirjam gets a head start by forming a relationship with an older man who says he loves her. Mia has a dad who drinks a little too much. Lucky for them that they have each other. Not forgetting Karl, their super-smart buddy.

It's a festival in the city. The crowd enjoying the jesters, firefighters and jugglers, cheering and laughing. But everyone is not having fun, Dag is fleeing from the cruel circus director Machiavelli. With the help of his new found friends Anna and Morgan he manages to escape to Circus Imago. But Machiavelli does not intend to give up the chase so easily.