It mainly tells the warm, funny and loving story between the "Furry Cat Residents" and human beings living in Istanbul.
The main performance in the film is the seven representative cats among the thousands of cats. They have the same personality as humans. They freely enter and exit human life, run around freely in different neighborhoods, and live a very enviable life. fascinating life.
Every cat has a rich and interesting soul under its skin. A "city hunter" little lion who stretches out his paws to help when he sees a mouse on the road; a "big player in life" who wanders the streets without worry; an orange cat with a completely different personality after becoming a mother who likes to be pampered; a social madman who is a street tyrant; Duman, who is noble and reserved, aristocratic and gentleman; Deniz, who has been tamed as a "socialite" because of his gentleness; and Ben Gu, a "public lover" who is prone to jealousy.
Cats have been living in Istanbul as they are now for thousands of years. On the streets of Istanbul, there are feral cats everywhere. They have no fixed owners and just wander the streets. But they are undoubtedly also deeply integrated into the lives of local residents.
The wild cat Bengu walks through the various shops in the street, and the shopkeepers love it. It used to be the thinnest and ugliest kitten in a litter of kittens. All the other cats left the street when they grew up. Only Ben Gu stayed and continued to breed here.
When the owner of the fish shop was setting up a stall, a newly born kitten came to the front of his shop. She took the owner to see his kitten behind the shop and begged the owner for food. Therefore, the boss often feeds it with some small fish.
A crew member picked up a litter of kittens. It stands to reason that kittens should not be touched casually, otherwise they may be contaminated with human odors and instead be abandoned by the mother cat. When it was determined that the kittens were not fed by the mother cat, he took the initiative to take the responsibility of feeding the kittens, feeding the kittens with milk with a syringe, until another big fat cat took over his job. He was once rescued by a cat in the trough of his life. In his eyes, the cat is the messenger sent by the gods.
The owner of the beachside restaurant has been plagued by rat infestation, and since the restaurant is open-air, rats often hide in the nearby sewers. But the arrival of the cat solved his troubles...
A cat wanders around the market, occasionally "snatching" some items from the stall owner as food, but the shopkeepers turn a blind eye. Recently, however, the market has had to comply with city plans and is about to be demolished, and shopkeepers here worry that the feral cats will have nowhere to go.
A woman who once fell into depression found herself in the act of taking a large bag of food to feed feral cats every day.
In Istanbul, all kinds of people have stories related to cats. Although their existence is so small, they are changing people's lives little by little.
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