We’ll prescribe you a cat. Syou Ishida. 2024.

On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Only a select few - those who feel real emotional pain - can find it.

The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment for its troubled patients: it prescribes cats as medication.

Bee, a female mixed breed, helps a disheartened businessman find joy in physical labour; Margot, as muscular as a boxer, helps a call-centre worker gain respect at work and at home; Koyuki, a white kitten, brings closure to a mother troubled by the memory of a rescue cat she was forced to abandon; Tank and Tangerine bring peace to a hardened fashion designer as she learns to be kinder to herself; Mimita, a Scottish Fold, helps a geisha to stop blaming herself for the cat she lost years ago.