The three dog tales represent man's relationship with his best friend: the dog. Each story shows a different aspect of that relationship through love, loss and delight. The plots are wildly divergent: the temptation of a young doctor, an orphan puppy, a mysterious dog trainer and a willful Pekingese who refuses to be separated from her mistress, even by death. Yet a central theme unites these stories: we and dogs are connected at the heart.