En 1973, el legendario kaiju (monstruo) Gamera, murió tras destruir a los Gyaos que estaban atacando un pueblo. Uno de los sobrevivientes era un niño, que hoy ya creció y es propietario de un restaurante en Iseshima y tiene un hijo llamado Toru. Toru encuentra una tortuga aparentemente inofensiva, pero que resulta ser un descendiente de Gamera e irá creciendo de tamaño hasta alcanzar casi 60 metros de altura...

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.