- A seventeen year old girl growing up in the zoo her family operates, focuses on her love of ballet and animals. Her parents are forced to sell Sheba the elephant to a traveling circus in order to afford the tuition for her ballet school. When Sophie discovers this she abandons her dreams of becoming a dancer in order to get Sheba back. When she falls in love with Blake, a circus artist, they both struggle to rescue Sheba.—Filmfinders
- Sophie is a teenager whose parents run a zoo. The location is never specified, although the film was made in Canada and the TV reporter has a C on her microphone. But Sophie plans to go to the American Ballet Theatre, so the film might be set in the United States.
Since she was four years old, Sheba the elephant has been her best friend. So Sophie is devastated when her parents, dealing with financial problems, have to sell the elephant to Winston Family Circus. Sophie offers to give up her dream of ballet if that's the problem, but that doesn't do any good. Sophie heads to the circus hoping to get the elephant back.
Once there, Sophie witnesses trainer Magnus mistreating Sheba and demands that something be done about him. Alistair Winston, who runs the circus his grandfather founded, is being interviewed on live TV, and Sophie's rant interests the reporter, but Winston keeps trying to stop her.
Having been accused of animal abuse, which of course Winston's circus would never do, Winston must hire Sophie as Sheba's companion. he demands Sophie earn her keep, which she is willing to do. Magnus has a real problem with Sophie being there. In fact, he has a problem with Sheba. It's not just that Sheba is untrainable, though Sophie could do it. He hates elephants, and there's a reason for that. And Magnus can train animals; he does a wonderful job with Caesar the black jaguar and genuinely cares for the animal. Magnus actually believes Sheba will put an end to the circus he will be the next to inherit.
Winston disagrees that Sheba is a problem, and when he sees Sophie and Sheba work together, he sees a great opportunity to entertain people. Still, it is not true that he genuinely cares about anyone there, even though he appears to. He does care about the circus that his family started, but also about making money. His best friend, now and when he was a child, is his ventriloquist dummy CW (named for his grandfather Cornelius Winston), so he has to admit he knows what Sophie is going through.
Sophie's human best friend is Natalia, a perky acrobat whose hair color changes daily. Natalia can be sad, though, and she does have a terrible incident in her past. Blake was once her partner in the act but now he is the pooper-scooper. He might be a potential romantic interest to one of the girls.
So will Sophie get her elephant back? Will she join the circus permanently? Will the various problems of the other circus performers be solved?
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