An anthology of six short stories;1) The Ice WandererSet in the Klondike region in 1897, and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter with an enigmatic old man.2) White WildernessAlso related to Jack London - it's an adaptation of the early part of his novel White Fang, in which two men and their team of dogs are relentlessly pursued by a pack of wolves. 3) Our MountainsSet in 1920s Japan, the story follows an elderly hunter in his attempts to take vengeance on the enormous bear that killed his son. 4) Kaiyose-JimaA nostalgic tale in which a boy is sent to spend the summer with relatives on the coast after his mother is taken ill. 5) ShôkarôA mangaka looks back on the strange apartment building he lived in when he first came to Tokyo as an aspiring artist and the unusual people he met there. 6) Return To The SeaThe tale of a marine biologist working on the coast of Alaska who becomes obsessed with an elderly bowhead whale and the Inuit tales of a whale cemetery.
