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.
Was it morning, or night?
La abuela no sabía si era de noche o de día, 
ni cuánto tiempo había pasado.
La abuela no sabía si era de noche o 
de día, ni cuánto tiempo había pasado.
Era manhã ou noite?