robotic beaver · optimistic · animal lover · engineering student · environmentalism · college setting · anthropomorphic · resilient · japanese-american · sci-fi
The camera pans over Beaverton’s forest glade, where young Mabel Tanaka plays among wild animals. Inspired by her late grandmother, she guards this sanctuary with fierce devotion. When Mayor Jerry Generazzo threatens the glade with a freeway, Mabel’s desperate campaign fails. Neglecting her studies, she faces the cold disapproval of her biology professor, Dr. Sam Fairfax, as her world crumbles under civic indifference.