Now and Then, Here and There

今、そこにいる僕

Shu, an ordinary Japanese middle-schooler, meets a quiet girl named Lala-Ru on an old smokestack just before a machine seizes them both and drops them into a barren future where water is nearly gone. He wakes inside Hellywood, a mobile fortress run by the volatile King Hamdo, who conscripts captured children as soldiers and covets the water Lala-Ru can summon through her pendant. Determined to free her, Shu clings to his own decency in a world built on cruelty and forced war.