This film is set in a Victorian era that might have been,
influenced by the visions of writers such as Jules Verne. As Pazu,
the apprentice of the engineer who maintains a mine's elevator
machinery, carries his boss's dinner back to the mine, an unconscious
pigtailed girl floats down from the sky into his arms. This girl,
Sheeta, and her magical levitation-stone pendant hold the key to a
mysterious, mythical sky-castle known as Laputa. Sheeta and Pazu must
flee from both air-pirates, who seek the sky kingdom for its
legendary treasure, and the army, led by a government agent with his
own mysterious agenda for Laputa.
-Christopher E. Meadows
