The video begins with the ending instrumental to ``Enter the circus''/``Welcome'', over which a carnival barker (voiced by Linda Perry) introduces a spectacular circus, and begins in black and white. The transition to colour begins when Aguilera appears in an old fashioned dressing room, receiving flowers and then an important telegram. A flashback then shows young Aguilera, played by Laci Kay, with _her_ father, played by Timothy V. Murphy, raptured by the sight of the tightrope walker, played by Elizabeth Glassco. <sep>, Pronoun: her