The play is an allegory of violence in contemporary society, written by a leading author of new Valencian theatre. Like a Ringmaster, a dancer unrolls the thread of the whole show and directs the other characters represented by puppets. Each story is introduced by a mythical song from the 20th century, about losers searching for their identity, unrequited love, loneliness and despair.The work was commissioned for puppets by the Bambalina Titelles d'Albaida theatre company.

In a tavern, Virgili presents four short stories that take place in a circus and have the themes of solitude, failure and death in common. A clown, in love with a trapeze artist, kills her partner; a trainer treats his wife as if she were a circus animal and ends up killing her; a young juggler kills his father with the needles he uses to inject cocaine; a soldier, a musician in the circus band who raped girls and killed children during the war, ends up shot as a deserter.