In seclusion, inventor David Kressen has lived for 10 years with his inventions, for example Adam, a robot using incredible human qualities. She's alternately repelled and brought into the scientist and his invention, when reporter Joy Andrews has given access to their unconventional centre. However, since Adam exhibits emergent behavior of envy and anger she finds herself increasingly entangled in a web of uncertainty where no individual's motivations are easily decipherable.