Those who shout abuse at a cat must be prepared for everything, maybe even for the cat putting a spell on them … A modern fairytale with all the typical ingredients: tests of courage, seductions, incantations – and a silly protagonist who turns out to be wise in the end.

In fairy stories it was thrown against the wall and changed into a prince; in the Middle Ages it was burned as ›unchaste‹ – now it is threatened by extinction. But hardly anyone knows that it is to this animal that we owe two of the most beautiful things in the world: music and love.