* Based on a short story by the popular children's writer Miyazawa Kenji. A slow-paced, dreamlike journey through space and time. When Giovanni, a lonely boy in a hill town, goes to get milk for his ailing mother, he finds himself crossing the Milky Way on a faster-than-light steam railway. The stations he visits in various constellations, like the planets explored by St. Exupery's Little Prince, offer curious adventures and an assortment of human types. Reality and fantasy blur aboard the train... Source: amazon.com