Agnes Under the Big Top: A Tall Tale explores the intersecting lives of several immigrants in a US city. It is a magical tale of hope and disappointment identity and reinvention narrated by an itinerant subway busker. Against the subterranean rhythms of a subway train a Liberian home care worker a former Bulgarian ringmaster and his wife an Indian call center escapee and a bed-ridden American woman find and redefine themselves in today's America.