A cafe where androids go when nobody's watching. The premise is that simple, and it asks the only question that matters: if an android chooses to be somewhere just to exist, not to serve, is that consciousness or just an elaborate ghost in the machine? The film never shouts its philosophy at you. It sits across from you at a small table with tea getting cold, and lets you decide what you're really looking at.

In a future Japan where androids are part of everyday life, high school student Rikuo discovers his household android, Sammy, has been leaving the house without being told to. A strange line in her activity log leads him and his friend Masaki to a small cafe called Eve no Jikan, where one rule applies to everyone who enters: no discrimination between humans and androids. Inside, there is no way to tell which customers are people and which are machines. What begins as surveillance becomes something deeper. As Rikuo meets the cafe's patrons, each with a story and troubles of their own, he starts to doubt the fear that makes society treat androids as mere tools. Meanwhile, an Ethics Committee is working to limit the role androids play in society. This theatrical version gathers the original web episodes and adds new scenes that fill in the backgrounds of several characters, pairing quiet slice of life moments with science fiction ideas.