When a powerful robot swoops in to save the scientific team stranded aboard a sinking ship, its motives are questioned by a cynical world. Soon, however, the media is flooded with reports of the machine, which continues to rescue people from one environmental disaster after another. While the public come to see the mysterious robot as a modern day saviour, international leaders question its intentions. It is left to eight year old Dillon to decipher the actions of the automaton... Robot Wake confronts a question at the heart of the modern social conscience: what are we doing to our planet, and would it be a better place without us?
