Maggie, a scientist, creates an android named Golp to babysit her 10-year-old child, Abigail, and be a companion for her lonely 57-year-old mother, Jean. Abigail wants a playmate, and Jean wants a man to replace her absentee husband, but Golp develops a mind of his own. At home school shootings are common, and abroad Golp’s cousins, the warbots. are on the move.