In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms – a treasure that she believes is an angel’s egg. One day, a boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in his dream and, at first, it seems as if feelings of sympathy are developing between the two. Haunting and dreamlike,  allegorical, and rich in religious and symbolic imagery, Angel’s Egg is known for its radical minimalism and influence on subsequent speculative animation. Oshii’s later works (e.g. Ghost in the Shell) build on the aesthetic and thematic daring found in this film.