A bear-child is found by a hunter and his wife who care for him for seven years but, after the child wanders off, the hunter finds the child with his bear mother and the child must decide if he will go with the hunter or stay with his mother.

When a white bear comes to the city to get her, a girl travels with him to his secret palace in the mountains before setting off on a journey to the homes of the four Winds and beyond, to the castle East of the Sun, West of the Moon.