Amleto e il suo clown (1920)

After her father is murdered, his daughter who suspects her step-father of the crime and kills him. After she is acquitted of the crime she joins a circus, and becomes famous because of a death defying act which she performs. In the succeeding episodes she is shown to suffer for her act, although she is helped along in the world by a kindly clown, until the burden proves too strong, and she relieves herself of her worldly troubles.