The film tells the situation of mountain rivers in a particular place in Japan. Inspired by Kafka’s “Excursion into the mountains” the filmmaker draws attention to the current environmental dilemma of including more-than-humans in political modes of commonality, solidarity and equally. Can the more-than-human subaltern speak, or shall one speak for them? He placed words of the story over the images to which they could rather literally refer. In the result a strange environmental interpretation of the writing appeared. The mountain started to talk and not being talked about: the insects, the river, the sand and the plants read Kafka aloud.