The little girl Lora arrives at a secluded monastery with Dog. The nun has escorted them that it would be ‘a better place’. Once inside the great wall surrounding the monastery, Lora and Dog are separated. Lora gets cleaned and uniformed as the rules of the monastery prescribe. That same night Dog is killed. Lora is not allowed to grief and she decides to turn into a dog herself, breaking all the rules that have been carried out for generations.