Scientist Alma works at the famous Pergamon Museum in Berlin. In order to get research funding, she agrees to take part in an unusual experiment. For three weeks, she is to live with Tom, a humanoid robot, an artificial intelligence designed to be her ideal life partner. Designed in a handsome humanoid form, the machine is made for her pleasure. What follows is a tragic story that explores the concepts of love, longing and humanity. Director Maria Schrader, winner of the Silver Bear for Actress and a brilliant film director, has adapted the story of Emma Braslavsky and infused it with the suggestive power of a film. She shows a deep understanding of acting chemistry, and she just right casts and directs a pair of protagonists who are an interesting and unnatural, failed couple. But what could be more fruitful than studying the tremor between analysis and feeling? After all, poetry can also use left-brain logic.