The Earth Federation wins the war, then becomes the thing it fought. Kamille gets dragged into a resistance he never asked for, watching everyone around him break under the weight of a conflict that refuses to end. This show does not give you catharsis for surviving the One Year War. It gives you the slow, specific horror of watching a military state methodically crush its own people while calling it peace.

In Universal Century 0087, seven years after the One Year War between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, the Federation forms an elite force called the Titans to crush what remains of the opposition. The Titans soon prove as brutal as Zeon ever was. In answer, disaffected citizens, former Zeon soldiers and even Federation personnel form a resistance movement, the Anti-Earth Union Group, or AEUG. Seventeen-year-old Kamille Bidan lives in Green Noa, a colony that hosts a Titan base. After he strikes a Titan officer, his trouble coincides with a raid led by the AEUG pilot Quattro Bajeena, once the Zeon ace Char Aznable. When Kamille takes one of the Titans' prototype Gundams, he is pulled into the conflict. The series is a mecha science fiction drama.