Jarinko Chie

Chie runs her family's small Osaka eatery while her father Tetsu spends his time avoiding responsibility and stirring up trouble. Her mother lives apart from them, leaving the resourceful girl to handle customers, school and a household that rarely behaves sensibly.

Chie wants her family together again, but Tetsu's pride and bad habits complicate every possibility. Relatives, neighbors and even rival cats add their own disturbances to a life she refuses to surrender to self-pity.