Salvo Ursari thrives on danger, feeling safest while performing startling feats of balance on a high wire, but his thirst for adventure soon threatens his marriage and his life.
Philippe Petit's illicit 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers is the touchstone for stories of the people down below, including an Irish monk living in the Bronx projects, a Park Avenue mother in mourning for her son who died in Vietnam, and a heroin-addicted hooker.
Phil had always dreamed of walking on a tightrope. First he practiced on his bed and then on the clothesline, until one day a giant tightrope stretched out before him!.
In 1931, a young girl travels around the country performing on a tightrope during revival meetings held by her father, and seeking her own answers about God, her family, and her life of poverty and homelessness.
After the Great Bellini teaches young Mirette to walk the high wire, she uses her talent to free him from prison, and both resolve to help others become free.
Poppy the pig has a special dream of performing in the circus as tightrope walker; however, she soon learns that it sometimes takes a lot of practice to fulfill one's dreams.
Amateur ropewalker, Max Mitchel, his brother Marty, and their friend Trudy Reeves, take a trip to Niagara Falls, where they meet The Great Farini, and witness his final death-defying stunt.
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
Although Henry the cat learns tightrope walking only to impress the humans in his family, who have stopped paying attention to him because of their new puppy, his skill comes in handy when the puppy gets stranded on a high ledge.
