Kutze, Stepp'n on Wheat

Alone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow rat-a-tap, tapping his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutzes steps, Cat resolves to travel abroad and tread wheat alongside this stranger when he becomes an adult. But first, Cat must grow up in the small port town where he lives with his timpanist grandfather and a father obsessed with an unsolved mathematical proof, and which, as part of the series of increasingly surreal events that characterize his life, Cat rescues from a plague of rats by his curious ability to imitate cats yowls. The rat-a-tap, tap of Kutzes step echoes through Cats life as he matures, moves away from the town to become a musician in the big city and, eventually, journeys further afield, across the sea.