The movie is about a beloved dog (Josh Gad) who finds the significance of its own reality through the lives of the people. It teaches how to spread love in the world. The film piercingly delineates the importance of love, affection and fraternity. The movie adopts an inventive approach to recount this specific story. The movie shares the heartfelt and surprising tale of one puppy who finds the importance of life through the lives of the people. It is a manipulative script about a dog that whacks your feelings.
The movie concentrates on a dog whose complete life is highlighted from his arrival to his demise. His rebirth is shown through five distinctive stages. In each life, it recounts his story from life to death. In his fifth life, he meets his owner. The film starts amid the 1950s. Storyteller canine starts and finishes a short life as a wild puppy named Toby, who ponders about the purpose of its life.
When he was very small, Toby is whisked away into the pound and he begins to think that fun is the sole purpose of his life. Resurrected as a retriever puppy in 1961, Toby exists from his cage and is found by two men. Garbage men decide to sell puppy for their benefit. Toby is locked inside their pick-up that is seen by Ethan and his mother. Puppy second life is very short; he’s protected by a feisty lady and her child, who break a window to recover him. After convincing Ethan’s dad, the dog is permitted to stay and renamed Bailey. Bailey and Ethan form a strong bond.
Bailey resurrects to take form of another life, this time it becomes a female German Shepherd Police puppy whose name is Ellie. Ellie is banded together with an officer named Carlos. Ellie works hard and finds her job as the major purpose of her life. The two form a strong bond which closes after Ellie bounced into a surging stream and spares a seized young lady from drowning, and shot amid a battle with the criminal.
This time puppy comes as a St. Bernard-Australian Shepherd named Waffles. He lives with a harsh and careless urban couple who name him Waffles. Waffles meet a dog and her owner who seems familiar to Waffle. He moves toward country area where he spent summers as Bailey without acknowledging at first where he is going. He happily reunites with his old owner Ethan, who reaches in his 50s, having a desolated life.
In the film’s end, Bailey persuades Ethan that he is Ethan’s pet by playing out few traps and reacting to the key phrases that were only known by them. At the end of the day, Bailey informs the people that life is about having some good times, sparing others, finding something special for your life and not getting lost in the past. Being reunited with Ethan, the bond between him and bailey is simply unbreakable one.