The complete anime series set in a remote future where humans co-exist with the Haibane, a mysterious race of angelic beings. Rakka, a young girl, finds herself hatching one morning from a giant cocoon. With no memory of her previous life, she struggles to adapt to her new existence as one of the Haibane. Episodes comprise: 'Cocoon, Dream of Falling, Old Home'; 'Town and Wall, Toga, Haibane-Renmei'; 'Temple, Communicator, Pancakes'; 'Trash Day, Clock Tower, Birds Flying Over the Walls'; 'Library, Abandoned Factory, The Beginning of the World'; 'End of Summer, Rain, Loss'; 'Scar, Illness, Arrival of Winter'; 'The Bird'; 'Well, Rebirth, Riddle'; 'Kuramori, 'Haibane of Abandoned Factory, Rakka's Job'; 'Parting, Darkness in the Heart, Irreplacable Thing'; 'Bell Nuts, Passing of the Year Festival, Reconciliation'; and 'Reki's World, Prayer, Epilogue'.

Hayao Miyazaki writes and directs this Japanese animated feature from Studio Ghibli. As a young boy, the bespectacled Jiro Horikoshi (voice of Hideaki Anno) dreams of flying a plane but when he learns he will be unable to become a pilot due to his poor eyesight, he instead decides to be an aircraft designer. On September 1st 1923 Jiro is travelling by train when the Great Kanto earthquake strikes. He assists fellow passenger Naoko (Miori Takimoto) and her maid who suffers an injury. He doesn't meet Naoko again till many years later after he has graduated university and has worked on various designing jobs, without finding much success. The two fall for each other and become engaged but Naoko is suffering from tuberculosis. While they try to enjoy the time they have together Jiro continues to work on designing his first successful plane.