Man sits opposed to all other creatures, a permanent, unbridgeable divide. The terrors of nuclear war and the poisoning and destruction of the land loom large, as the Doomsday clock inches ever closer to perfect 12:00. Up in the dust-blackened sky reappears humanity's horrible history, from the 1933-45 Japanese genocide in China to the British Empire to communism. Meanwhile, the animals dwell in perfect harmony as if they were embedded in the earth itself.