A comedy thriller set in a pioneer village in the northern wilderness of Japan. Settled after the war by pioneers returned from Manchuria, the hamlet was once home to twenty families. However, the barren land yielded little and gradually the population dispersed. Eventually only Yumie and her 17 year old daughter Emiko were left. Living alone in the derelict village, they are occasionally visited by various people, such as workmen from a nearby dam and an employee of the electricity company, but one by one each visitor mysteriously vanishes. In this bizarre set of circumstances, eventually Yumie and Emiko disappear too. There is only one witness to these strange events, an owl that lives in the forest behind the village…