A kitten lives in the garbage cans behind a building in San Francisco's Mission District.While foraging for food on the streets, the kitten is offered food by a passerby but runs away, and he sleeps in a cardboard box in a dilapidated building's garbage heap. One day, a pit bull is moved to a doghouse behind the building.The kitten is initially very scared of the dog but slowly begins to connect with him by playing with a bottle cap. One night, after the pit bull is taken inside the building, he ends up getting heavily injured in a fight and is thrown back outside.