A man comes home to find a fox boy in his family's udon shop, and somehow that becomes the most honest story about grief and fatherhood ever told in twelve episodes. There is no plot twist waiting. No dramatic tension. Just a man learning to be someone's father by feeding him, listening to him, and staying when staying gets hard. The show moves at the speed of real healing, which is slower than you think and deeper than you expected.

Souta Tawara, a web designer in Tokyo, takes a break and returns to his hometown in Kagawa Prefecture. His parents are no longer around, but the family's old udon restaurant still stands. Inside, he finds a grubby young boy asleep and gives him food and clothes, only for the child to sprout furry ears and a tail. The boy turns out to be the shapeshifting tanuki rumored to have lived in Kagawa for years. Believing the boy has been lonely, Souta names him Poko, takes him in, and leaves his job to look after him. What follows is a warm slice-of-life fantasy about their everyday outings together around Kagawa, known as the land of udon. Spending time with Poko also leads Souta to think back on his own past, the town he left for the city, and his relationship with his father.