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Buffalo" Bob and Horatio Huntington ran a successful traveling circus, despite their vastly different personalities. After a show, the circus' Romani fortune-teller Esmeralda presents her niece Talia to her employers, asking them to give her a job. Bob and Horatio are immediately smitten with Talia, but Talia is only interested in Bob. When the pair announces their plans to marry in 1964, Horatio becomes furious and gives Bob an ultimatum, asking him to choose between him and Talia. Bob marries Talia, and Esmerelda gives them a mysterious box as a wedding gift, which allows them to open a new circus. Buffalo Bob's circus is known for animals performing amazing and seemingly impossible feats. years later, Bob's nephew Owen marries his childhood friend Zoe at the circus, where they first met as children. Owen is browbeaten into working as a taste tester for Zoe's father, Mr. Woodley, at his dog biscuit factory to prove his worth to his future father-in-law.