A father tries to resurrect his dead son inside a machine and calls it progress. The film knows this is horror dressed as science fiction, and it never looks away from what that means for the boy trapped inside. Astro Boy's origin becomes the question that matters: when grief writes the blueprint, who does the creation serve, the creator or the created?

Doctor Tenma, head of the Ministry of Science, obtains a digital brain genome that was recovered from an aircraft. After setting off on a journey to Mars, he merges the genome with a robot, and through it his son Tobio, who had been killed in a traffic accident, is brought back to life. This special origin film blends drama and science fiction with robot action.