Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

Shinji Ikari is a withdrawn teenager who helped cause a ruined world through the Evangelion machines. Fourteen years after the last disaster, he travels through red wastelands with Asuka and a Rei clone. The group finds a small farming village where survivors rebuild daily life while NERV prepares another impact. The film moves from quiet village scenes to violent battles and a strange inner world, and its tone shifts from despair toward hope.

The story focuses on grief, broken families, fear of closeness, and the hard work of becoming an adult. Rei learns ordinary human life in the village, but her body cannot survive outside the system that made her. Shinji faces his father and chooses a world without Evangelions, which lets the characters leave their repeating pain behind. Kaworu remains tied to Shinji through grief and a close same-sex bond, while the film places that bond inside a wider story about healing.