A master hunter goes to the mountain, where he has a dream of a frog eating a worm, and then being eaten by a snake. An Ainu village is attacked, and an old woman and her grandson Tonkuru escape into the forest where they get separated. A girl named Yayoi crosses the mountains every day to go to work, and each day she would talk to a tree.
She had come to the side of a lake,
 and she could walk no more.
Finalmente la abuela llegó 
a la orilla del lago.
Finalmente, la abuela 
llegó a la orilla del lago.
Ela tinha chegado à beira de um 
lago e não podia mais caminhar.