Plot Summary:Snowflakes drift through the forest. An old man, as old as the hills, lives alone in a remote hut. The winter is so cold that he can barely move his limbs. When a robin flies against his window and falls to the ground the old man first has to pause for thought. Then he pushes open the heavy front door and stomps outside to help the bird. Out in the deep snow his strength begins to fail him. But no sooner does he take the tender creature in his hands than a change comes over him. Life radiates in luminous colours and returns to the old man's hut. As it used to. Or is this just one last memory? An inventively animated rumination on love, on bidding farewell and the cycle of life.
This simple and sedate stop-motion animation is rich in detail and huge in heart. As a cold wind whistles through the forest, a robin hits the window of an isolated cottage. But with stunningly life-like animation, an old man ventures out into the freezing snow to perform one last tender act…