When a little clown gets lost after falling off a train, a farmer finds him and befriends him until the train returns.

While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men, clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold.

Tito admires the circus magician Rando who, with magical words and his wand, takes a great variety of things out of his hat. Tito would like to do the same.