Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.

Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.

2019 film directed by Kelly Reichardt

人类一直在探索自然的奥义，我们通过探访各种极致的自然地貌和这片土地上的生命，探寻人、动物、自然的和谐共生之道。这一次我们跨越中国四角的不同生态，通过探寻四种令人敬畏的动物，通过努力感受它们，尝试与天地沟通。它们在远古曾经是图腾，是食物链顶端的动物——森林之王东北虎、海上精灵白海豚、雨林巨无霸亚洲象和雪山使者野牦牛。这四种被称为旗舰物种的动物，它们与天地同生，与人类共存，用特殊的方式帮助人与自然对话。众神之地，是那些神奇沟通的发生之地。