The midget Fyodor Bezuglov worked in the circus in the same act with the famous illusionist Antoine Shalamov. Despite the fact that he was surrounded by a wide variety of people, Fyodor felt terribly lonely. There was emptiness hidden under the circus bustle. And no one could fill it. A bright longing for perfection, a premonition of deep and strong passions once pushed him into a relationship with an ordinary woman, Anna, Antoine Shalamov's wife.