A man leaves his life in the city to purchase land in the country. He finds the land to be incredibly beautiful even though the house is essentially dilapidated. He plans to eventually turn it into his dream home and often works on his blueprints.

The man always felt it was his purpose to build a house. Thus, he lived a very frugal and uneventful life so he could save money to buy land and build a house. He resisted making friends in this effort.

As autumn approaches, he begins to hear hunters outside his house. The sounds of their rifles troubled him. There is the smell of sewage in the air as his house was adjacent to the sewage treatment yard.

He sees the silhouette of a hunter in his window. One day the hunter enters his house. He just stares at the man and then leaves. The hunter returns to the house another day. He let himself inside and sits down. He speaks to the man. The man does not understand the hunter's country accent. The hunter does not understand the man's city accent.

The hunter approaches the man's drawing board and waits for an explanation. The hunter seems confused that the man is planning the house room by room. When he understood he smiled and left.

The man was very angry that the hunter invaded his space. However, he soon longs for him to return. The hunter hunts regularly and then visits the man. The hunter always declines the man's offer for food or drink. The two become friends and begin to do things together.

Each time the hunter visits, he looks at the revisions to the man's blueprint. The hunter sometimes even sketches in a new idea that hadn't occurred to the man, like a root cellar.

However, the excitement of the man's plans dissipates. As more time passes, the fewer resources the man has to put into his plan. The market began to skyrocket and things become more expensive.

Though, the blueprint becomes very vivid to the man as he does not lose his belief in his house. Sometimes, the blueprints are more vivid to the man than was his actual house.

The man becomes more disheartened as more people began to move to the valley and encroach on the vastness of the natural setting. Trees are cut down and houses with urban residents take their place. The man feels that the speed in which these houses were put up mock the progress of his own build. The man also becomes upset as his friend, the hunter, abruptly stopped visiting.

The man decides he must sell his land. His agent tells him no one will buy it save his neighbors who want to get rid of him and his eyesore of a property. This hurts the man deeply and he refuses to sell it. Several weeks pass, and the man's friend still has not visited. The man falls into a depressive state and decides he will return to his office job that he quite good at. He tells his agent to make an offer to his neighbors and calls for a taxi to come the next day.

When the taxi arrives, the man cannot yet part with his property. He tells the driver to return at the same time on the following day. The man feels he was being rather hasty with his decision and wants to say goodbye to his friend.

Soon thereafter, the man becomes angry and feels the decision to stay an extra day was foolish. He is risking status at work and must endure another day in the hostile environment of this countryside. He spends time outside and thinks of the city. He is extremely hungry but does not wish to walk to the village. He goes to sleep hungry. In the morning he looked forward to eating at the train. However, the peacefulness he feels from the birds and the sunrise causes him to send away the taxi driver yet again.

This time, the man feels liberated in his decision to stay as he is absorbed in nature and sits outside his house for the rest of the day. Though, he goes to bed hungry again. He awakes to see a figure at the end of the field. The figure is covered in bandages and has wounds covering him. The man approaches him and recognizes him as the hunter. The man brings the hunter back to his house. The hunter conveys using many motions that he had been in a hunting accident and was in the hospital. The man contemplates taking the hunter to the doctor as he seems unwell but dismisses the idea when the hunter appears to calm down. The hunter continues motioning and talking but the man is having trouble understanding. The man becomes restless and paces around. The hunter motions for the blueprints, which the man had packed up. He unpacks them and gives them to the hunter. The hunter passionately draws complex structures on the blueprints until he falls asleep.

The man went to the village to get food for the two of them. When he returned, the man looked across the landscape and realized that it would be foolish for him to leave. Soon after this, his mind races on what he will begin to work on house.

In his vision, he puts up many trees to shelter his house from his neighbors; he builds a stable; and he tears down his broken walls to put in new ones. The man acknowledges to himself that he may be delirious and that things may not end this way. He is too happy to recognize that misfortune may fall upon again.