Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski is haunted by memories of his life as a young veterinarian for a circus during the Great Depression, recalling the bond he developed with Rosie, the show's troubled elephant, and Marlena, the star of the equestrian act who was married to August, who the head animal trainer.
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