Marceline Orbés was born in Spain in 1873 and he established the lines of the modern clown language in London. He was, without any doubt, one of the key actors of the performing arts of his time and a creator of new performing formats. He was Charles Chaplin’s mentor and Buster Keaton’s reference. He filled two performances a day at the Hippodrome in New York, the largest theater of his time, where he was the main star. A few years later, the cinema appeared and replaced theatres as the reference of entertainment.

Some like Charles Chaplin, knew how to adapt to it, while others , like Marceline, met a tragic end and were forgotten. Eva is his great-granddaughter and ever since she is conscious, she has wanted to go on stage. No one has ever told her about Marceline, until her grandmother, in the last years of her life, explained her roots and why her parents wanted to discourage her from pursuing an artistic career.