Canio and his Comedia dell'Arte troupe tour Italy. His wife Nedda meets a young cadet and they plan to elope. He tries to leave her when he finds how important she is for his husband, but a rejected trouper interferes. As jealous Canio suspects the truth the tragedy approaches. The film was partly made in Ufacolor.
Tauber is a famous clown who kills his wife and her soldier lover in a fit of jealousy. The film did quite well in England when it came out, thanks to the novelty of its color sequences at the beginning and end. Mostly a curiosity today.