Synopsis'

One sentence:
Two young girls are taken to a home in the country side with their father while their mother recovers from an illness in hospital, but they find forest spirits hidden around their home.




One paragraph:
Two sisters named Mei and Satsuki move into an old country house closer to their Mother, Yasuko, who is recovering from a long term illness in hospital with their Father. They find out that the house is inhabited by susuwatari which are small dark dust sprites which drift away, but in an attempt to follow them younger sister Mei runs into the forest surrounding the house. In which she finds a large cat like creature which she names Totoro. A few days later the sisters fight and Mei runs to the hospital which is miles away to give her Mother some corn she grew in an attempt to make her better faster, their neighbours manically try to look for them but Totoro brings her home. After returning home a few days later, while waiting for the bus to return with their Father on it in the rain, Totoro appears beside the two sisters and calls the many-legged cat bus which takes them to their mother's hospital, where they leave their home grown corn on her windowsill. And, to their joy, she does return.