Born into a family of flying trapeze artists Olympia Knife has one small problem When her emotions rise she becomes invisible. Everyone in the traveling circus has learned to live with this quirk they banded together to raise Olympia in a loving environment when her parents vanished midair during their act never to return. But the same fate befalls Arnold the worlds shortest man followed by one act after another until the show is a crumbling mess of tattered tents and terrified troupers. Into th