Druuna is trying to escape from the city of machines, the lifeless city. She wanders along a riverbank, trying to reach the world that Shastar had told her about. This world is not new, it is simply forgotten... Druuna will ultimately find out that what she is seeking lies deep in her own heart.

Between machine heaven and mutant hell... In a plague-ridden city where humans degenerate into hideous mutations, a beautiful woman makes an astonishing discovery that sends her racing to prevent her world from destroying itself. From the pages of Heavy Metal comes Volume One of a riveting Druuna adventure!

The adventure continues as Druuna faces the sentient, immortal computer that controls The City and its mutant inhabitants. Originally published by Dargaud Editeur, France; this edition as seen in Heavy Metal magazine 1988.