The original story line is set inside a circus where a mysterious stranger offers to join the spectacle as a clown who will receive slaps for the delight of the audience. We learn he has left a failed marriage and falls in love again. The comedy of pain transcends changing tastes of humor through slapstick and physical comic opposites. The design represents a clown made from a hand referencing the repeated slaps the main character takes throughout the show and the audience is referenced by the multiple eyes surrounding the clown.