Killing me softly

Intrigued by the tale of a mountain god, six-year-old Rita Piussi loses her way in the ancient forest while visiting her uncle. Exhausted and desperate for help, Rita is thrilled to find a masked forest spirit named Keanu. She learns the hard way that she should not touch the boy, or he would disappear. In spite of this, Keanu leads Rita out of the forest and warns her never to return when she promises to come again with a gift.

Paying no heed to his cautionary words, and despite being separated by both distance and planes of existence, Rita and Keanu become close friends as she visits him every summer. However, their relationship and resolve are put to the test, when romantic feelings conflict with the one and only rule