pencil: Takumi Nagayasu

story: Katsuhiro Otomo

In the near future the Earth has been devastated by a nuclear disaster.
Sarah continues her journey with Tzè-Tzè in search of her children and arrives in a city in the snow.
The city is governed by an army of very young and fascist Epoch soldiers.
The adults are arrested and forced to work in a nuclear waste repository.
Sarah and Tzè-Tzè also suffer this fate.
The army commander is a woman, whom most soldiers call Mama.
Newly captured, Sarah dreams of her escape from the satellite, separated from all her children except the newborn.
Once on Earth they are attacked by bandits and Sarah loses the baby and ends up a slave.
During her imprisonment she is raped and mutilates her breast by herself, when it starts to hurt from not being able to breastfeed.
When she wakes up she is sent to dig for slag and ends up getting into an argument with Cabe, a big retarded soldier.
The clash attracts the commander, who takes Tzè-Tzè into her room, after he reveals to her that he is Sarah's husband.
Sarah is helped by Maru, a soldier who rebelled and ended up a prisoner.
The commander organizes a party for her favorite, Zaar and forces Sarah to face naked and muscular men, who want to rape her.
Sarah manages to defeat them and the party is interrupted by Maru and other defectors.
Cabe, now loyal to Sarah, kills the commander and Zaar.
Zaar possessed telepathic powers with which he controlled others.
Reading Sarah's mind, in an attempt to subdue her, he learns that Sarah killed her infant son to keep him from crying and for the bandits to find out about.
After the battle, Sarah learns from a young soldier that her sons are alive, but have been sent to another camp.
The author of "Akira", in a unique science fiction cycle, with an almost western and mature style, which is very reminiscent of "Hokuto no Ken".