A thirteen-year-old girl drops into a village of orphans with one year to save them or fade away completely. She doesn't arrive as a messiah figure explaining her purpose; she just starts existing alongside them, taming the horse they couldn't touch, becoming part of their world instead of above it. The clock is running the entire time, turning what could be sentimental into something urgent and real: she has to matter to these kids, or she stops existing at all.

When Yuki turns thirteen, her grandparents in Heaven send her down to Earth with a task: save the people of a village torn apart by bandits within one year, or become as insubstantial as the wind. There she is befriended by a band of orphans who lost their parents to the bandits and now survive by begging. Yuki astonishes them by taming a wild horse named Blizzard, and she helps the orphans and farmers find the nerve to resist, first against the warring bandits and then against Goemon, the greedy lord who owns the region. Her hardest test comes when an angry Demon God dwelling in the nearby volcano emerges to destroy the people living below. Set in feudal Japan, this fantasy adventure film is based on a book by Saito Ryusuke and directed by Imai Tadashi.