In the far future of 2010, many years after World Word 3, flying cars and wristwatch TVs are commonplace and the human race has abolished its armies, now living a peaceful existence. But one day a UFO descends from the skies. Its cargo, an alien race of machines seeking a new world after their own was destroyed by a supernova. The defenceless humans are powerless against the warmongering machines and promptly surrender to their mechanical overlords and their diabolical leader, The Animator. All hope is lost until one day a strange misshapen figure walks out of the nuclear wastelands. A genetic cocktail of lifeforms, it is half man, half baked bean. It is known as... Bean.