Ageing ex-con Frank lives alone and is slowly relinquishing his grasp on memories of the past. So the old man's techno-reliant son installs a servant robot to do Frank's bidding. At first, Frank is reluctant to switch on the automaton, but once he learns that VGC-60L has no programming to distinguish right from wrong, man and machine carry out a theft at the local library, then ramp up their larcenous activities with wryly amusing and heartbreaking consequences.