Lili is a little French girl on the verge of her teenager days. As for Ken, he is a young Japanese man with a light body. She arrives alone in Japan. Ken is to pick her up at the Fukuoka airport and take her away to her father, who lives in an island in the south of the archipelago; Although they do not speak the same language, the inability to use words is no handicap to communicate. Indeed, this state of fact enables them to develop gradually a kind of distant and emotional complicity. The passing by of typhoons shows the end of the summer and slows down the progression of their trip. In this context, their journey suddenly
takes the rhythm of an excursion. However, as they reach Yakushima, they find the holiday home closed and the small island isolated by the arrival of a new typhoon. Waiting around, Ken and Lili decide to walk to the top of the island,looking for the sacred trees...