When a recent widower sets out to a Japanese forest to commit suicide, he crosses paths with a stranger who happens to be there for the same motive. Together, they embark on a purgatorial journey of self-discovery and redemption, as they try to find their way out of the forest and out of despair.
A recent widower sets to the woods trying to commit suicide, but instead embarks on a purgatorial journey when he meets another man who happens by chance to be in the woods for the same reason.