With remarkable intimacy and dignity, Tsuyoshi Miyazaki portrays the cats of the neighbourhood. Rather than a collection of cute cat pictures, the book meets its subjects at eye level, at times giving the illusion that they wanted their lives documented. In the artist's statement Miyazaki writes that cats are photographed out of love, but that the fate of stray and abandoned cats is grim, a thought that looms however exquisite the light; so the cats nearby that need help are found and helped first, and only then photographed.