Flora (Francoise Rosay), a hard-bitten female lion-tamer, tends to treat the people around her with the same harsh brutality that she doles out to her lions. Even so, she reacts in fear and loathing when her former lover Fernand (Andre Brule) escapes from prison. Threatening to tell the world that he's the father of Flora's son, Fernand is able to secure a job as her animal keeper. Within a few months, he's become the manager of Flora's circus, maintaining the respectable veneer even as he returns to his life of crime. Meanwhile, Flora reveals the more tender side of her nature as she deals with the romantic misadventures of her son Marcel (Fabien Loris) and his pregnant sweetheart Yvonne (Sylvia Battalie). All of the film's loose plotlines are tied up with in the final footage, as Fernand is returned to prison and Marcel comes to grips with the responsibilities of parenthood. Filmed in Germany, the French-produced Les Gens du Voyage (People Who Travel) was lensed simultaneously in a German-language version (Fahrendes Volk) by the same director, Jacques Feyder. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi