It's about taking chances and risks, no matter what... So live bravery!
Flashback to the prohibition era, during the Great Depression, 1931, where a 23-year-old Polish American, Jacob (Robert Pattinson) is a Cornell student. While taking his final exam, he is informed that his parents have been killed in a car crash. His father has left huge debts, and the bank forecloses on Jacob's home. Feeling that there is no point in returning to school, and having no home, he jumps onto a passing train where he meets Camel (Jim Norton), who promises him a job and tells him to get some sleep.
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In the morning, Jacob discovers that he jumped on the Benzini Brothers Circus train, and while watching the train unload, He sees a beautiful woman, Marlena (Reese Witherspoon), performing with her horses. Jacob does odd jobs all day and that evening is summoned to meet August (Christoph Waltz), the circus owner, the head animal trainer, and Marlena's husband. August orders him thrown off the train, but Jacob reveals that he studied veterinary science at Cornell and has noticed a problem with Silver, the starring horse of the show. August agrees to hire him as a vet for the circus animals.
The next day, Jacob examines Silver, diagnoses laminitis, and suggests that Silver should be put to sleep, because the condition is agonizing for the horse and incurable. August refuses and orders Jacob make the horse ready for the next show. Marlena is heartbroken and tells Jacob that August will not allow the horse to stop performing. Jacob, unable to bear the pain the horse and the girl are in, steals a gun and shoots the horse.
When August finds out he is furious, and has several men grab Jacob and pretend they are going to 'red-light' him (referring to the practice of throwing men off a moving train, either as a punishment or as a way to avoid paying their wages). August explains that his word is law, and that Jacob will be thrown off if he does not do as he is told. Jacob gets the message and August bunks him in a room with the dwarf, Walter (Mark Povinelli) and Walter's dog, Queenie.
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Soon after, August reveals the new starring act for the circus; a 53-year-old elephant named Rosie. At an intimate celebration that evening, August asks Jacob to be Rosie's trainer/caretaker, and Jacob admits to August and Marlena that he did not graduate from Cornell and is not certified as a vet. August shrugs it off and hires him anyway. August becomes intoxicated and goes to bed, leaving Marlena and Jacob to share a brief dance together.
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Then the real problem started to rise... How is it? Its a loved which forbidden... ---
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