Teenager John Connor lives in a troubled home with his adoptive parents, he did not know his biological father and his mother is hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, with that, the young man has developed a rebellious personality and is constantly getting into trouble, his life changes when he is saved by a mysterious man. The man reveals to him that in 20 years the world will be dominated by a technological industry and that he is an android sent to the past to protect it, since in the future John will lead a rebellion against the machines, the two then leave to free John's mother and stop the apocalypse, while being pursued by another malevolent android.