Arnold and Molly Forbutt's love of stray cats brings down disapproval on their innocent heads and Arnold's response is such as to set him up against the antisocial media being used to disseminate popular challenges. A quite necessary progression to Texas, space travel and a journey to Mars only goes to show how logic can lead one astray. This gentle, loving and magical tale of an old man's insistence upon form runs along at a cracking pace, and to an only-too-necesssary conclusion. This is a comedy, a social commentary, and an adventure: above all, it is a love story.