In 2010 Japan was invaded and taken over by the empire of Britannia. Japan is now called Area 11, and it’s people, the Elevens. They live under a dictatorship rule, all their rights, freedom, and identities taken away. 7 years later, Lelouch, a Britannian prodigy with a mysterious past, finds himself pulled in a battle between Eleven rebels and the Britannian military, and has a fated encounter with a friend from the past, and a mysterious girl with strange powers, both of which change his life forever…