Alma is a scientist who works at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. In order to obtain funds for her research she is persuaded to take part in an extraordinary experiment: to live with a humanoid made-to-measure for her character and necessities projected with artificial intelligence to bem her perfect partner. It is thus that Alma gets to know Tom, a machine created exclusively to make her happy. The Ideal Man is a tragi-comic tale about love, nostalgia and what makes a being truly human.