An epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by the legendary director Hayao Miyazaki! In a long-ago war humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving indistrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air.At the periphery of the sea tiny kingdoms are scattered on tiny parcels of land. Here lies the Valley of the Wind a kingdom of barely 500 citizens; a nation given fragile protection from the decaying sea s poisons by the ocean breezes; and home to Nausicaä. Emperor Namulith wants to unite the warring Dorok and Torumekian empires but needs Pricess Kushana s cooperation to do so. Meanwhile a mutant strain of mold has spawned and is consuming everything in its path!