A synthetic child's relentless quest for maternal love drives him through abandonment, existential crisis, and millennia of slumber toward emotional resolution.
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.
Steven Spielberg
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