A hunter chases ducks into a village that shouldn't exist, and nothing about the story bends toward spectacle or resolution. Puppet animation moves with the weight of actual wood and cloth, each gesture costing something. The folk tale refuses to explain itself; it simply presents a man discovering that the world has rules older than his hunger, and he has no choice but to accept them. This is a film that trusts silence more than dialogue. Most viewers will miss it entirely.

A hunter goes out one day hoping to catch a great many ducks, but the birds end up carrying him off to a faraway village. The film is a puppet-animated fantasy made in stop motion, and it adapts a traditional folk tale that shares its title.