A dying woman tells a fox he can take whatever he wants from her life, because she has nothing left. He chooses to heal her with a song. The film understands something most stories miss: kindness doesn't need grand gesture or cosmic stakes to break your heart. It needs a person who has already let go, and another who refuses to let them disappear.
An elderly woman named Itako has been confined to her bed for a long time when a fox named Okon wanders into her home. With no use left for her belongings, she tells him he may take whatever he likes. Delighted, Okon returns the kindness by performing a magical ballad sung to shamisen music, and it restores her strength so that she can walk again. Her sudden recovery astonishes everyone. When Itako learns of a gravely injured hunter close to death, she hides Okon in the back of her shirt and plays the shamisen while he sings, healing the man. She goes on to help others the same way, until her good fortune starts to make some people suspicious. The short film blends drama and fantasy in a gentle folktale of kindness repaid.
