1000 years after the collapse of a giant industrial civilization, rust and ceramic fragments covered the land. Over this wasteland, a deadly forest of fungi that released poisonous vapors (miasmas), which came to be called the "Fukai" (Spoiled Sea), spread and was threatening the very existence of the declining human race. The Valley of the Wind, where Nausicaa is a princess, is caught up in a transnational war which threatens mankind nearly as much as the wasteland itself...<br />