After moving from the countryside into the big city, poor college student Hideki Motosuwa finds himself down on his luck. All he wants is a good job, a girlfriend, and his very own “persocom” the latest and greatest in humanoid computer technology. Hideki’s luck changes one night when he finds Chi an adorable, but seemingly broken, persocom thrown out in a pile of trash. After taking her home, Hideki discovers that Chi is more responsibility than he expected and that there’s much more to his cute new persocom than meets the eye.