Yutaka Kizaki

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was born and what the world would be like if she where never born. While in the clouds she meets her grandparents and a few other people she loved who have passed on.

In a village in Manchuria, a group of Japanese settlers struggle against the elements to create wet rice paddies.