The edition of the book was printed with the funds of the institutional support grant for publishers. Jacob dutifully attended university lectures and prepared for a modest career as a doctor of veterinary medicine. But fate had its own plans for him. Having lost everything, the boy literally jumped into a train - as it turned out later, a circus train. It is the circus that will give him friends, a lover, a profession and even an elephant! It is the circus that will teach him to resist evil and fear nothing.