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.
But no matter how hungry she was,
Por mucho que estuviera cansada,
Pero, por mucho que estuviera cansada,
Mas não importa quanta fome ela tivesse,