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In the near future, a young married couple navigates parenthood in an age of android children, neurologically-linked technology, and rogue super-soldier robots that threaten humanity.
As a young girl's grandfather ages, her family decides to purchase a robot care-taker to watch over him. Technology advances as her grandfather controls the robot to care for his friend; however, as severe illness demonstrates, this system is not a perfect solution to elderly care.
In the distant future where communication is supposed to be made simple, a mother continues to struggle to break through to her young daughter, even with a visit to a unique museum that pays tribute to miscommunication between people through the ages.
In a distant future in which technological advances have extended human lifespans, a man must decide whether or not to upload his dying Cuban refugee mother’s consciousness to a digital “habitat” technology he has developed, where she can live out her life in virtual simulation back home in Cuba.
The family of an elderly woman with Alzheimer's hires a Medical Care Android to take care of the woman as she nears the end of her days. This Android isn't just any ordinary robot, though — it can impersonate the woman's family members so accurately that the woman is convinced that her family is always with her, doting on and caring for her.
In a contemporary home in Southern California, a box that allows people to relive past moments of their lives complicates an already-strained father-daughter relationship.
In 2038, a woman visits her estranged father’s retirement community to find that he has replaced her with a robot in the form of a little girl.
When a flight that went missing in a wormhole twenty years ago finally reappears, a distant workaholic father who was on board reaches out to his now-grown son by email.
A college counselor watches anxiously as her teenage son applies to college without her help. As her son plans for his future, the counselor and her husband reflect on how quickly their lives have changed, seeking ways to steady themselves in the midst of middle age.
A low-income, single mom ponders how to comfort her son, who struggles to make friends at school. Even though she's been saving for a new dryer for months, she decides to buy him a robot at the local pawn shop.
