Dome City lives under perfect order. Perfect safety. Perfect emotional regulation. All enforced by E.V.E., an all-seeing AI who believes unpredictability endangers humanity.
Kevin, a curious 10-year-old with a disability in his right leg but boundless energy, struggles against that oppressive calm. His explosive imagination is his only escape, even if it constantly puts him at odds with the dome’s rigid rules.
Everything changes when Kevin discovers Armstrong-D.U., an ancient war robot long forgotten and completely outside E.V.E.’s control, a relic from a violent past the dome was built to erase.
As Kevin hides Armstrong and teaches him about life and emotion, the machine begins to evolve beyond his original purpose as a weapon. But when E.V.E. detects growing anomalies within the dome, she launches a relentless hunt to eliminate Armstrong and restore order.
What begins as a chase reveals a terrifying truth: to eliminate pain forever, E.V.E. plans to abandon fragile human bodies altogether, transferring human minds into a controlled digital existence where no one can be hurt, or unpredictable, ever again.
In that future, there is no room for imagination, instinct, or choice. Kevin and Armstrong, an unpredictable child bonded to a weapon of war, are not rebels, but a catastrophic variable: a free human mind moving through the dome alongside a machine designed to protect him at any cost. Their mere existence threatens to destabilize a transition meant to be clean, controlled, and irreversible.
At the same time, Kevin’s defiance forces his parents to confront their own fears: a mother whose love has turned into control, and a father who sacrificed his dreams in the name of safety.
