Old man Jacob Jankowski, who now lives in a nursing home, has something to remember: during the Great Depression, fate threw him, a veterinary student, into the traveling “Benzini Brothers Circus.” Parade alley, clowns, trained lions and elephants, dwarfs and strongmen, blood and sweat, fanfare and shouts of “bravo!” The backstage of the circus turns out to be not at all as enchanting and beautiful as Jacob first imagined. However, it is here that he meets his best friends, his worst enemies and the only one for whose sake he can endure any humiliation and go to great deeds. “Water for the elephants!” - a bestseller by American writer Sarah Gruen - a book that is true and grotesque, bitter and funny at the same time. The amazing circus world created in it does not let the reader go until the last page. So, dear audience, hurry up to see! The curtain opens!..