Area 88 (TV)

Japanese photographer Makoto Shinjou arrives at Area 88, a desert airbase in the kingdom of Asran where mercenary pilots live within constant reach of death. Among them is Shin Kazama, whose civilian future was stolen when someone he trusted tricked him into signing a combat contract.

Shin longs to return to Japan and the woman he left behind, but freedom requires money earned through dangerous missions or years of service. Between combat sorties and Shinjou's camera, the lives of men uncertain of their next landing come into focus, along with the question of what surviving this war will leave them.