母を亡くして寂しい毎日を送る少年・透は、ある日浜辺で奇妙な卵からかえった子ガメを見つける。透はカメにトトと名付けて家に連れ帰るが、食堂を営む彼の家ではペットは厳禁。父に見つからないようこっそりとトトを育て始める。そんな矢先、なんとトトが空中に浮かび上がり、しかもその現場を年上の幼なじみ・麻衣に見られてしまう。彼女は、トトが33年前に人間を守った伝説の怪獣、ガメラの子どもではないかと言う。

An offbeat romantic comedy about a decent guy, Ray Tuckby, with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, CA. After encouragement from a stranger whom he happens upon, Ray begins to dream again. He sheds the parasites in his life, musters the nerve to pursue his childhood love, and finally takes back his community by toppling the local teenage Meth-baron.

Snowy, a 4-inch-long pet turtle, has lived an isolated life in the family basement. With help from a team of experts and his caretaker, Uncle Larry, we ask: Can Snowy be happy and what would it take?

A tortoise crawls across the floor. A man sits on the couch, dead. A year passes, the mail by the door piles up as the man slowly rots. The starving and lonely tortoise begins to panic.