Nataka the Protean is minding her own business, arguing with her raven and pottering around her dishevelled garden when in an unguarded moment she allows herself to be spotted by a human busybody and dragged off to a nursing home. But before she goes, she fulfils the heartfelt wish of one desperately suffering animal. Little does she know that with that single act she has set in motion a chain of events with life-changing consequences for both herself...