Women in their infinite variety are celebrated: Willow sees her “thick” wrists and ankles as an asset she recalls the golden hairs on her mother’s face as beautiful and one of the circus members is a charismatic trans woman named Delilah. The story never romanticizes homelessness it’s represented as the harsh reality it is. When the circus comes to town, Willow auditions and goes on the road, leaving lost soul Suz behind. But Suz takes Willow into her squat, feeds her, and teaches her how to juggle-and eat-fire. When the young women meet again, Willow is understandably untrusting. When she befriends homeless street performer Suz, a “tanned skinned, yellow-dreadlocked” Australian, Willow trusts the wrong person and ends up penniless. With her gap-year savings buried deep in the lining of her bag, 17-year-old Willow reinvents herself as Frog, circus performer. Wanting to feel connected to her estranged, circus-performer mother, Willow decides she, too, will join the circus.
Willow has everything except what she really wants: her millionaire father’s attention. Part-Romanian, “dark as a gypsy” Willow Stephens has been raised by nannies and posh boarding schools.
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