The child is warned by his mother that foxes get married in rain when the sun shines and that they don't like human guests. The child then ignores his mother and goes into the forest. when he arrives he hears music and looks to see where it comes from. He gets home and his mother tells him that he is cursed and that a fox told her that he was seen then hands him a knife and tells him that he must kill himself or ask for forgiveness. He is told that foxes live rainbows. He eventually finds the bottom of the rainbow and there is nothing there meaning that he has to die.

The point of the film is probably to illustrate how curiosity the most primitive human emotion can hurt you or even kill you. In the end there is a lot of white which symbolizes death in the japanese culture. The foxes symbolize curses in the culture so they were probably used for a main theme for this purpose.