In this episode much is revealed about Tenchi's past and about his mother. It begins on a snowy morning. Everyone seems excited that it is snowing, except for Ryoko who is upset because snow is cold. Sasami is having the time of her life. She is enjoying running around in the snow, building snowmen out of Azaka and Kamidake, and ice skating.

But for Tenchi there is little time to rest. Despite the fact that its freezing outside his grandfather still expects him to practice sword fighting. While Tenchi is keeping a small piece of wood from hitting the ground by batting it up with his wooden sword. He is balancing on small pieces of wood driven into the ground. While Tenchi is performing this extensive training his grandfather is sitting on a nearby rock staring off at the falling snow. While they begin to practice dueling Ayeka comes up the stairs of the Masaki shrine with some hot cocoa. She sees them practicing and notices that Tenchi's movements mimic those of a swordsman of Jurai. When she makes herself notices Tenchi gets bonked on the head by his grandfather who is in a rather interesting striking position.

Just then Sasami comes up the hill and tells her sister to look towards the lake. There is a beam of light coming from it going straight up into the sky.

When they get closer on the frozen lake there is a small sapling growing out of the ice. The sapling is Ryu-Oh, Ayeka's ship. Although it survived the crash and is still alive it cannot fly anymore because it has rooted itself in soil. Ayeka is happy to see that her spaceship tree is still alive.

That night at Tenchi's house everyone is drinking...heavily. In the middle they run out of sake and send Tenchi out to the store to get some more on his way back he catches a fever and starts to see things. When he gets home Sasami is there to greet him but he suddenly staggers and passes out. Sasami runs into the living room to get help but everyone is out cold. Not knowing how to help Tenchi she asks the guardians and they tell her that Ryu-Oh's sap has healing powers. She runs out to the lake and prays to the tree to help Tenchi. The tree responds by giving her a drop. Sasami uses the sap on Tenchi.

That night in Tenchi's dreams he is seen as a small boy building a snowman at the shrine. His father is seen coming up the stairs and mouths some sad words to his son. Tenchi begins to cry and his father hugs him.

The next day Tenchi wakes up and remembers that the snow has been bothering him because when he was young it snowed one day and that day his mother died. When he gets to the top of the hill his grandfather is there with his father. They are praying in front of a tombstone. It is the grave of his mother. Tenchi says his feelings and life continues as usual.