Takuji is the sleeping man, rendered unconscious by a fall in South America, now bedridden in silence in the village of Hitosuji. Kamimura, Takuji′s schoolmate, reminises on how they played and visited a hut as boys. Tia, a Southeast Asian whose son died in a flood from her country′s deforestation, works at a bar outside town and learns of Takuji. When he dies, she attends a performance of "Matsukaze," a play where the dead call upon the living. Afterwards, she walks alone to the forest and spends the night in an abandoned hut, the very hut Kamimura is striving toward.