近未来，神秘症状在人群间扩散，恐惧在空气中曼延。原因不明，只知感染者初期会产生骨骼变异，身体长出毛皮或鳞片，原有人类特质将逐步退化。政府束手无策，只能强制收管已兽化的感染者。方苏瓦深信挚爱的妻子还在那张突变的面孔底下，无论她被转到多远的收容所，他都带着青春期的儿子艾米搬迁跟随。尝试融入新班级的艾米，却意外发现身体也出现了难以启齿的变化??
12-year old dreamer Vlad likes telling fantastic stories about his courage to his summer camp friends, although he is a bit of a coward himself. But one day Vlad finds himself in a real adventure as he accidentally gets caught in a conflict between two alien forces. Shapeshifting Trashmen, descendants of an ancient alien civilization, try to disable electricity on the whole planet by deactivating the defensive shield that protects the Earth from an approaching solar wave. In this way they challenge the all-powerful and mysterious Energy that enabled humanity's technological progress and which we depend on more than ever. In this battle Vlad is helped by a transformer box called the Bobot, which holds the key to saving the world. While telling stories about fictional courage is easy, Vlad will find out that overcoming his fear in the real world is quite a challenge. Mankind's future lies solely in his hands.
