James wanted to quit drugs, but every time he couldn't resist the temptation to continue smoking. Later, she met Val, who helped people detoxify. After listening to his singing, she found him a place to live and helped him detox. She begged someone from an agency to give him an emergency housing so that he would stop living on the streets, enduring the temptation of wind and rain and drugs.
The man said disapprovingly, "What's so special about a drug addict? Why is it him?" She said, "I don't know either. Sometimes someone shows up, and you just know he's pure inside. I think that It's his last chance. He really wants to quit his drug addiction, but he's helpless. I have to take him off the streets or I'll lose him."
On the first night of the house, there was an orange-patterned The stray cat broke into the room, he was surprised to give him something to eat, and then pointed to the window and told him to go home, otherwise his family would be worried if he couldn't see him, but he didn't leave. The next day he took the cat around and asked who had lost the cat, but no one paid attention. He let the cat go and let him play by himself.
But then the kitten came to him again, bleeding, and the wound was festering. It happened that he met Betty, a girl who was helping in the animal hospital, helped him deal with the wound, and asked him to take the cat to the hospital for treatment. She said, "He told me he was here with you. He came to you for a reason." Later she called him Bob and told him, "He told me he wanted you to call him that. He said, "Actually he's not my cat." She said, "Don't worry about yours and mine, we all belong to each other."
Betty asked him to take Bob for neutering, which he didn't think was necessary. "It's the worst life imaginable with a male cat on the street alone," she said. "Fighting for food and territory every day." He said to himself, "Do I need to imagine that kind of life, huh?" Betty said. : "I can't give him a family, at least give him a chance to survive." Although James can't protect himself, he has one meal, and he can't adopt it, he still takes him for treatment, buy medicine, and sterilize.
When he was sterilized and had that collar on his neck, he said Bob looked like Shakespeare. Betty said that when he was castrated, James told her not to say that word, Bob understands English and it hurts his self-esteem. He really is as pure as Val said.
After James calmly took care of his injury, he took him out and let him go, telling him that this great world was waiting for him to see and explore. I couldn't help but feel very sad when he pushed and waved to Bob while talking. Maybe it was because he was too sensitive about farewells.
But Bob came back to him. Not only did he not leave, he also followed him when he was leaving home to sing on the street. He refused to go back. He crossed the underground passage, crossed the road, got on the subway, and found his way through the crowd in the subway. he. He had to take him to the streets to sing. Bob's cuteness attracted a large number of pedestrians to watch him, and listening to him sing, many people donated their money to help. When he was done, he rested on the side of the road and gave Bob a high five. He said, "You are such a wonderful little thing."
At that time, a woman came over to him and said, "You have a cute little orange cat! Don't you?" She said that she also had a little orange cat before. , he was by her side until death. She said she loved him with all her heart, and James said he had his own mind too. The woman said, "Orange cats have iron will. You have found a good partner for yourself, better than humans. Trust me."
Later, he took him to the streets to sing every day. His singing is also full of joyful feeling and hope for life. The woman brought Bob presents at Christmas, a few tins and a tie. James said to her, "You're an angel." She smiled and said, "I can't fly that far, but I'm not always an old woman." In fact, she didn't look old, not beautiful, but the smile made her Very stylish.
Later, because a boy he knew was taking drugs, he went to help him and was then banned from performing on the street. Unable to continue singing to earn money to support him and Bob, he finds another job selling magazines. Every day Bob lays on his shoulders, attracting crowds of pedestrians asking for pictures and buying his magazines. Another magazine seller resented him for stealing business, and complained that he forced the photographer to buy the magazine. Banned from selling newspapers for a period of time.
He's getting agitated, like he's about to break down, and then he's looking like a junkie, unable to control his emotions, vulnerable, helpless, and worried about where Bob is right now. Val soothes him and tells him to go to the pharmacy to get medicine, and she goes to the police station to help him bring Bob back. While taking medicine in the pharmacy, Betty finds out that he turns out to be an addict and angrily says he lied to her. Her brother died of drug addiction, and what she hated most was drug use.
Later, he began to sell newspapers, and someone offered to buy Bob at a high price, but he sternly refused. Just then someone showed up with a big, fierce dog, and Bob ran away in horror. Maybe he was hurt by it when he was wandering before. James was horrified to see Bob run away and chased after him. It was a thrilling moment. I was so nervous when Bob rushed past the front of the car. It was just James' mentality. I thought that if Bob died, I wouldn't live. That was the mood at that moment.
In the end, he still didn't catch up with him, and he didn't know where he ran. He went to visit his father on New Year's Day, but his father did not accept him, and his father's wife drove him out of the house. Betty didn't listen to explanations after discovering that he was taking drugs and ignored him. Now Bob is gone too. James said bitterly: Life is a constant storm of rot. Yes, it's that hard, and so is homeless raising a cat.
He collapsed in front of Val, deeply berating himself for not taking good care of Bob, worrying that he didn't know where he was and would be in danger. Val reassures him that Bob is a stray cat, and maybe that's what he wants to do. He is an animal and is independent. But it could not soothe his broken heart. He said he had vowed to take care of him, but he didn't.
He said he would go home and wait for Bob, believing he would come back. He stayed in the house in pain and despair, watching the drug dealers outside from behind the curtains. He went out in grief and walked towards the drug dealer. They said, "Are you looking for heaven? We have. Do you want white or brown?" He said, "I'm looking for my cat, have you seen a little orange cat?" I was so nervous at the time I'm afraid that he will fail.
When he returned home in despair again, he saw Bob on the windowsill. I don't know what happened to him in the past few days. He hugged Bob ecstatically, and lost warmth and hope returned to him. He and Bob took to the streets to sell newspapers again, and life was back on track. The woman was right, Bob was indeed a good companion, better than a human.
He went to Val and said he was ready for a drug test. Val told him about the unimaginable and enduring pain he would experience during his detox, and asked him if he could do it? He looked at Bob and said, "I'm not myself, I still have him." He said that when he was selling newspapers, someone came up to him and called him Mr. Can he take pictures with him? No one had ever called him Mr., and they had never been willing to walk with him on the pavement before. All because of Bob, who tells him what life can be like.
Betty also forgave him and offered to watch over him during his detox, saying that he would be fine with Bob by his side. He's sorry for letting her down before, and he'll make up for it after a few days. After a painful struggle, he finally succeeded in detoxification. When Betty asked him how he was feeling, he said it was about the same as before, but completely different.
At that time, the photo of him and Bob had gone viral on the Internet, ushered in a large number of fanatical favorites. He was approached by a publishing house to write a book about them. They said they had to find someone to write for him, but he said he had to write it himself. He was a person who liked to read. In the days that followed, he was writing the story between them.
At the signing, he said: "When I was in trouble, a friend said to me that everyone has a second chance. But, not everyone can get it. Fortunately, I have a Very important buddy, helping me get a second chance." As he said this, Bob was lying quietly next to him, as if he completely understood what he was saying.
In the end, the prototype of James also appeared among the readers who bought the book. He took the book that James handed over and said as he walked: It's like I lived every moment. After the film, the subtitle said: Bobstill rides everywhere on James' shoulders. Inside the cast It turns out that Bob performed it himself. It is said that the director found 6 cats, but they couldn't beat Bob himself.
Bob was always serious and never coquettish, just followed James very quietly, inseparable. Except for the frightened escape, he never left him, and he found it by himself a few days later. Like Betty said, he's here to accompany him. They made me feel that traveling with my cat in the future is also possible and achievable.
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