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.
Even when I'm a ship, 
nobody will be able to take me to sea.
En el momento del lanzamiento,
Cuando me inauguren,
Mesmo quando eu for um barco,
ninguém vai poder me levar para o mar.