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 searched the holes in the tree trunks,
Tonkuru no se encontraba 
ni en los huecos de los árboles,
Tonkuru no se encontraba 
ni en los huecos de los árboles,
Ela procurou nos buracos das árvores,