Piñon is 6 years old and Chestnut is 9, they are clowns and have lived all their life in the circus, learning to combine applause and school. Piñon dreams of being a renowned circus artist, while his brother worries about studying. One day their life is interrupted by a terrible news, they must leave the circus and with it their father and friends, to go and live somewhere else, there they will be forced to behave as if they were sedentary.