Puss is so busy being a fearless hero and building his legend, he didn't realize he'd run through eight of his nine lives and for the first time finds himself fearing death and considering retirement. It's not so easy to shed those past lives, however, and when a notorious crime family hires him for one last job by destroying his placid life, he finds himself : in possession of a map to one last wish, the target of crime boss "Big" Jack Horner, reunited with his spurned partner Kitty Soft Paws, and relentlessly pursued by both an overly-optimistic therapy dog and a bounty hunter who might actually be Death himself -- the White Wolf.