A richly-illustrated children's adventure story following two anthropomorphic robots and a professor of indeterminate specialisation trying to find a way to escape a surreal alien planet. Who to trust? How to survive? The professor is old and wants food, the robots are not at all concerned with his wellbeing. The landscape is barren and inhospitable, the relationship between the three travellers murky and delicate. They must work together if they ever want to leave the strange planet populated by lava-men, bears and something even more dangerous.