Trixie and Monkey dream of bringing their unpredictable and peculiarly glamorous act to a world wide audience. They relocate to a New England circus school to study acrobatics and trapeze. On the weekends they relentlessly test-drive their act on the stages of Baltimore rock clubs, Vegas casinos, and New York City theaters, all-the-while annihilating anything conformist in their path. But financial uncertainty, physical exhaustion, and romantic tension leave them questioning if they will make it as artists and what success even means.