Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

After his dog falls ill, a socially awkward middle-aged man struggles to navigate his day-to-day life without her.

After his father abandons him and his mother, leaving them with two hunting dogs, a teenage boy tries to save them from ending up in the shelter.

When a mother takes her children to buy a puppy from another mother, she finds an unsettling household and a child chained like a dog in the backyard. Through their alternating narratives, both mothers reflect on what it means to love your children.

After the disappearance of one of her beloved humans, a dachshund tries to acclimate to life without her. But, when yet another loss strikes, the dachshund's life is changed forever.

An older man, recently retired, lives in Paris with his younger husband who is often traveling for work. Though the man is reluctant when his husband first brings home a dog, the pet soon becomes his close companion as he struggles with aging, questions his marriage, and faces trauma from his youth.

A young woman and her sister-in-law travel to Fiji to capture an infamous vampire dog, risking their lives in the process, for a well-paying doctor who claims to need them for his sick son. Only one of them returns home, and the doctor is revealed to have alternative plans for the dogs.

A man ponders about his relationship with a stray cat that pays regular visits to his house and seems to have a secret life outside. One day, the cat goes missing, causing the man to worry.

When a house dog grows depressed alongside her owner, the dog escapes into the woods and must learn how to survive on her own four feet.

A naturalist's boyfriend offers to put her elderly dog down, but he finds it difficult as he thinks about his relationship.