CoDee hopes to keep the kitty alive. CoDee, a brain damaged young man, lives on a dusty, dirty desert world. The junk yard he lives in belongs to CoDee. He hates it when dead animals get dumped in the yard. He says it "hurts his heart" to deal with them. The world he lives on caters to the older, poorer freighters and trading ships. A ship rescued a member of a feline species with massive injuries. They dump the cat in his yard thinking her dead. The female cat asks for CoDee's help. He does the best he can. Cat can help heal him, but first she must mend. Cat's efforts to help CoDee reveal memories of the individual who almost killed him, his father.
