This is the touching story of a friendship between a human and an animal against the backdrop of the fading traditions in the lifestyle of the Evenki, the reindeer nomads of Inner Mongolia in China. One day, the old Evenki Gree Shek is faced with an unusual situation: a motherless moose calf follows him out of the forest to his camp and even into his tent. Gree Shek raises the calf, naming it Xiao Han, little moose. Soon, the little moose grows larger than the adult reindeer in Gree Shek's herd and follows him everywhere. However, Gree Shek knows that Xiao Han cannot stay with him forever; it is too dangerous, and Gree Shek is getting old. So, one morning, he takes the moose into the wildest part of the forest and returns it to nature. Their special bond, however, will remain in the memory of the Evenki for a long time to come.