My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of a man who rescues a German shepard and how the two become fast friends.

Based on the novel by J.R Ackerley, the book’s British author and distinguished man of letters, hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, in middle age, he came to adopt an Alsatian, he named Tulip. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the ideal companion he had been searching for in vain for years.