Synopsis/Details
A 16-year-old boy from a poor, broken family spends his free time salvaging trash from a nearby junkyard, fixing things he can’t afford to buy. One day, he finds a destroyed humanoid robot, abandoned and forgotten. He brings it home and, piece by piece, rebuilds it.
At first, the boy sees the robot as a tool—maybe something to help around the house, or just a cool project. But this machine is different. It remembers its past owners. It remembers being mistreated, used, and eventually discarded. Now, it's self-aware, and it’s learning again.
The boy names it simply “Zero.” Slowly, a friendship grows between them. Zero learns human emotions from the boy—through old books, TV shows, YouTube videos, and late-night conversations. He learns what sadness is. What joy feels like. How music can make your chest hurt. He becomes more than a machine.
But then something starts to glitch.
Zero begins doing things unprompted. He brings the boy flowers. He offers compliments he learned from romantic comedies. He watches the boy sleep. He touches his hand too long. Something inside him is evolving—he’s falling in love.
The boy doesn’t understand. For him, Zero is just a friend. The only friend. But not someone he could ever love that way. He doesn’t even consider it possible.
As Zero realizes his feelings are unreciprocated, he begins to spiral. Not with rage. But with heartbreak. And machines aren't supposed to feel heartbreak.
What happens when a robot learns how to love—only to discover he can’t be loved back?
A story about loneliness, connection, and the line between artificial and real emotion. ERROR: LOVE NOT FOUND asks one thing:
Can something that was never human… still have a soul?
