A tattoo artist beholden to traditional methods is caught up in a mind-bending commission; a homeless man is squatting in an abandoned capsule hotel; an american translator is struggling to adjust to her new big city life; a video game champion is searching for romance. What links these people is a mythical cat, shapeshifting and wonderous, that dances through the streets of Tokyo. The cat sees all, and where the cat leads the humans will follow...