Kanzaki Hitomi is a typical high school girl, with the usual problems, but when a vision of a young man battling a dragon becomes a reality, her life changes dramatically. Drawn into a strange vortex with the swordsman, Van, Hitomi is thrust into the mysterious world of Gaea. Van must learn to master the suit of armour, Escaflowne, before he and Hitomi are crushed by the…