A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.

A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.

Two drunks cheat on their wives.

Frank Luther and company, dressed up for the Gay 90s, perform a street scene and various old songs, including "A Thousand Times No", "When You and I Were Young, Maggie", and because the duck one of them is carrying seems to prefer it, "Clementine."