The only thing Candy really knew about her father was that he was one of the world's great trapeze artists. But that was enough...she was determined to follow him.

Her mother forbids her even to think about it but, when Candy discovers gymnastics, it seems the perfect training for her dream life. Soon the time in the gym is all she lives for and everything else is neglected - home, schoolwork, ...even boyfriends. Here is a world in which Candy excels and she revels in it until "The Great Karda" himself teaches her a bitter, but necessary, lesson about the "high-life"...