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Story of a city of the future in which the workers dwell underground and are slaves to the machines that they operate and their daily monotonous work. Above ground dwells the privileged class of rulers, who live in luxury. The son of one of these ventures below ground and discovers the world there. He also encounters a beautiful girl who ministers to the workers. Worried about her influence on his son and the workers, his father encourages an inventor to create a robot which looks like her.