In SHEDDING, a bored house cat longs to explore the outside world. One day, he escapes his home after mysteriously changing into a young man. The outside world is strange to him, but he runs into a woman who has an attachment to him. She clothes him and cares for him as one of her own. When the woman’s daughter arrives home, she tells her mother to persist, because her son isn’t returning. In the confusion, the daughter lashes out at the young man, and he runs away. The daughter and her mother must learn how to overcome their crippling grief.