While at school his parents are killed in a tragic car accident and Jacob is forced to identify his parents' bodies at the police station, never getting to finish his final exam. Jacob believes he has nothing now that his parents are dead, so he starts running after a moving train. He leaps forward and grabs on to the train, realizing after the fact, that it is a circus train. Jacob becomes the vet of the Benzini's Brothers Circus and falls in love with Vany, her childfriend girl.