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Ten years ago, a traveller stuffed a turtle into his sock and smuggled the creature from its native home of Africa into Japan. However, when the turtle accidentally fell out of his hiding place at the airport, he was picked up by a young boy. A decade later, the two are still together living at the master’s tea farm, and the turtle has happily adjusted to life in Japan. Now the turtle enjoys his peaceful life with his clueless master and their meat-hungry neighbour as they go about their day-to-day lives on the farm and encounter all manner of new creatures from a curious owl to a violent delivery Seadog.