Synopsis

The Long Tack Sam Troupe – a once-celebrated, East-meets-West vaudeville circus act- now survives as an opener for Hollywood films. They arrive at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver with fraying nerves and uncertain futures.

Mina, the eldest daughter of Chinese magician Long Tack Sam and his Austrian wife, Poldi, is tired of the road and doesn’t want to inherit the show. Mina longs for a different life- one where she can define herself outside the footlights. Her precocious younger sister, Neesa, is determined to take her place – but nobody thinks she’s ready.

The troupe is invited to perform at Vancouver’s elite Snowball – a whites-only event – but the family thinks they’ve been invited as guests. The misunderstanding sets off a chain of events for the two sisters that threatens to tear the family, and the show, apart.

As Mina secretly weighs an offer that could change her future, Neesa tries to prove herself by performing her father’s famous goldfish bowl trick with results both disastrous and magical. Both sisters must choose: stay bound to the fading life they know, or leap into the unknown – at the risk of losing each other.