A young woman, Amrita, travels to a planet that all are forbidden from visiting. On her journey there, her ship malfunctions and she loses her best friend, Tripp, who just so happens to be a robot. She enters the planet in the hopes of saving him, but before she can land, she is visited by one of the aliens to home the planet used to belong. The aliens have long since moved beyond their physical forms, yet they are still able to appear as embodied creatures when they so desire. This one takes the form of Amrita's dad and even calls himself Dad. Amrita is, at first, taken aback. For, she grew up without her father and spent time imagining what he would have been. The alien version of her dad is just like the Ideal Dad she imagined. Dad tells Amrita that people are only forbidden from entering the planet for the planet for their own safety, but that he will help her navigate it. They land upon the planet and find Tripp, but Tripp does not want to be rescued. Instead Tripp gives himself over the the building robots that have taken over the planet. Tripp does so to find some sort of higher purpose. Though Amrita is safe because the robots will not touch organic material, she has no way off the planet. Dad takes Amrita to an island where she will be able to live undisturbed by the robots for the rest of her life. Dad helps Amrita to program a few of the robots to build her a home there. Eventually, Amrita realizes that she can use the robots to build a spaceship that will take her off the planet. Amrita confronts Dad about her discovery; for, he had previously told her that she was stuck there. Amrita then learns that Dad has just been lonely and looking for company. Dad is upset that Amrita intends to leave and abandons his physical form. Amrita is left alone, fatherless, again. Eventually, her ship is built and she leaves the planet to go home.