After an accident takes his lover, Dr. Edwin Blais-a University of Texas history professor-vows celibacy. With only his dead lover's cat for company, he spends the next eleven years alone before the Maine Coon, Francesca, escapes from her cat sitter while Edwin is at work. The loss shatters Edwin. Desperate, he plasters the neighborhood with Lost Cat signs offering five thousand dollars for her return.A few blocks away at a body shop, Nasty, an old...