Travel to Monte Carlo as the Big Apple Circus scouts new acts for next year’s show and reunites with old friends. Stateside, as the circus heads up the eastern seaboard, the youngest members contemplate their futures.

Big Apple’s founder and its newly installed artistic director embark on their annual trip to the renowned Monte Carlo circus festival — a kind of international circus family reunion — to scout fresh talent. Back in the U.S., the performers and the crew put on two shows a day and travel from Georgia to New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York. The Anastasinis, an eighth-generation circus family, wonder if their young sons will be content to carry on the family legacy.