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During World War II, young Mahito Maki suffers a heartbreaking family tragedy. He has to immediately move to the countryside, where his father works for a family of industrialists that makes airplanes for the Japanese military. Mahito begins to explore the mysterious landscapes in solitude. He meets a gray heron who stubbornly follows him and comes across an abandoned tower, which he enters out of curiosity. A wondrous, astonishing fantasy world opens up to him.