When the members of Ogawa Productions settled in Magino, they heard about the "white south": a cold-air front from the Pacific Ocean that damaged the crops of the neighbouring mountain village of Furuyashiki. A few members moved to the hamlet for two years, where they conducted a rigorous investigation into the influence of climatic conditions on agriculture. At the same time they documented the stories of the villagers, which paint a picture of a Japan that is torn between tradition and modernization.