In1957 during the height of the Cold War a giant metal man falls to Earth.

The Iron Giant lands near a small town in Maine only to make friends with a nine-year-old boy called Hogarth. Hogarth is well aware of the town’s fears and paranoia so he hides the giant.

The situation soon escalates and Hogarth has to turn to his friend the Iron Giant, who has to find his own humanity and help save the town from its own fears and prejudices.