Winter is approaching, and the last day of the red-yellow-brown glow of autumn is a good time for the animals in the forest to organize a very special race. Ardently they construct buggies from discarded materials, and as the weather turns frosty, the race is on for the hare, fox, hedgehog, bear, and others. With mutual caring, the forest animals ride toward the finish line and their wintering grounds.

A small family of shrews, made up of a grandmother, a mother and her three children, lives on the edge of a stream. One day, heavy rains fell, breaking the old dam upstream. Fortunately, the family members are all safe, but their house is totally destroyed. Forced into exile, the shrews go, on the advice of an old man, to the hill of pebbles.

Autumn has settled in on the banks by the stream. Small animals are busying themselves in preparation for the long winter ahead.