Summer with Kuro

Hiroshima, summer of 1945. Nobuko, a young girl, rescues a starving kitten from crows and begs her parents to let her keep it. After some resistance, they relent, and she and her brother Makoto name the cat Kuro. The little black cat soon brightens their home with happiness. But as the war tightens its grip on Japan, even basic necessities grow scarce, making it difficult for the family to look after Kuro. Then, one August morning, Kuro starts behaving oddly...