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"Looking for a Cat Before Dawn" is a Japan Literature Award-winning novel, a youth novel full of humor and helplessness. Twenty-eight-year-old Takahashi had nothing to do after graduating from university. He became a member of the Feit clan and started a band. Now that his music dream was shattered, he began to look for a stable job. His live-in girlfriend Ah Hui works part-time in a bar and asks him to find the lost cat Mary. Takahashi's search for a job was not smooth, he encountered obstacles everywhere, and the situation of his Freeter companions was also in dire straits. The task of finding the cat did not go well, but they encountered all kinds of weirdos: Onishi, a fraudster, and a little girl who said "never trust anyone over thirty years old"... In the end, the cat was found, but it was already dead. Takahashi has also found a stable job, and his dissolute youth seems to be saying goodbye to his dead cat.