Follows a group of family members and friends through the course of a day as they learn the importance of all things great and small.

A young girl finds a way to tame the winds besieging an old man who lives on a hill above her village.

In a series of letters a student laments the absence of her teacher and daily routine, but she soon realizes there are benefits to mixing things up, and that perhaps having a substitue teacher is not so bad after all.