Dragged from his homeworld of Amestris to a parallel world called Earth, Edward Elric lives in Munich, Germany, in the year 1923. Stripped of his alchemical powers and some of his limbs, but not the attachments for his automail, he researches rocketry with Alfons Heiderich, a young man who resembles his brother. Alphonse Elric lost all of his memories of the events following his and his brother's attempt to resurrect their mother. He was studying alchemy under their teacher Izumi Curtis, but after her death he began seeking a way to reunite with his brother and retrieve his lost memories. Edward encounters many people whose faces are familiar to him. He rescues a woman named Noa, a troubled gypsy woman, who starts having visions concerning his life in Amestris. Dietlinde Eckhart, a member from the Thule Society, discovers the existence of Ed's world with help from Noa and starts giving him hints to how he could open a portal back to Amestris. Once Ed starts opening the portal, Dietline kidnaps Ed's father, Hohenheim, to open the last parts of the portal using the homunculus Envy as a catalyst. At the same time Alphonse is guided by the homunculus Wrath to the underground city beneath Central City to open a portal to Earth. They are attacked by the homunculus Gluttony, who brutally fights and captures Wrath between his jaws. But Wrath asks Al to transmute the two of them so he can open the gate, Al complies. Envy and Hohenheim are both transmuted moments later, allowing the Thule Society's army and Dietlinde to travel through to Central which they attack. Ed follows in a rocket-powered plane and is reunited with Al, Winry Rockbell, and Roy Mustang. Ed, Al and Mustang fight Dietlinde while the military defeats the army. Ed returns the surviving men to Germany and to seal the gate, but to his shock, he finds Al hidden in a suit of armor. Al explains that Mustang is sealing the gate in Central, and he has also regained his memories after losing them at the end of the series.