Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor. First rivals, then friends, they must decide if their friendship is enough to save each other or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy each other.
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