Free Jimmy

Zirkuselefant Jimmy verrichtet nur noch deshalb seinen trostlosen Dienst im heruntergekommen Kleinzirkus, weil ihn seine skrupellosen Pfleger Abend für Abend mit harten Pharmazeutika abfüllen. Eingenäht unter seiner Haut befindet sich ein Päckchen mit Heroin, mit dem die Pfleger abzusahnen gedenken, auf das aber auch eine Gruppe krimineller Biker ihr Auge geworfen hat. Weder die eine noch die andere Partei rechnet allerdings mit jener Gruppe von Tierrechtlern, die den Junkiefanten Hals über Kopf in die Freiheit entlässt.

Roy Arnie has a dream. One day he will run his own circus and conquer the world. Today, however, he is a stable-hand working in the Circus Stromowski, a miserable Russian big top, run by a hopeless alcoholic fourth generation circus director, Igor Stromowski, and full of useless has-beens and tired animals, which will only perform under the influence of narcotics. Roy Arnie invites his old buddies Gaz and Odd, and their sidekick Flea, to come and work at the circus, and while work is an alien concept to Gaz and Odd, the appearance of an irate criminal who they are indebted to decides the issue. At the circus, Roy Arnie introduces the trio to the star attraction: Jimmy the elephant. Formerly a great sight, but after 20 years at the circus he has become addicted to every drug under the sun. He performs in a purple haze, counting down the days until someone realizes he will be more useful as a set of piano keys. Roy Arnie keeps him going with a complex regime of uppers and downers to ...