The film is set in 2805, with Earth an abandoned planet covered in trash as the result of decades of mass consumerism facilitated by the megacorporation Buy n Large (BnL). Giving up on restoring the ecosystem, BnL evacuated Earth's population in fully automated starliners in 2105, leaving behind an army of trash compactor robots called "WALL-E" (Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth Class) to clean the planet for an intended five-year period. By 2110, however, the planet became too toxic to sustain life, forcing humanity to remain in space. At the start of the film, one WALL-E unit has managed to remain active beyond its designed operational lifespan by learning how to salvage and repair itself using parts from other broken down WALL-E units. This particular unit has developed sentience after 700 years, displaying curiosity about the artifacts of human civilization by collecting various items salvaged from the trash in addition to his regular duties.One day, WALL-E discovers a seedling plant growing among the trash and brings it home to his storage truck. Later, a spaceship lands and deploys EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator), an advanced robot sent from the BnL starliner Axiom with the directive to search for signs of vegetation on Earth. WALL-E falls in love with the initially cold and hostile EVE, who gradually softens and befriends him. When WALL-E brings EVE to his truck to show her the plant, she automatically stores it, goes into standby mode, and sends a retrieval signal for her ship, which returns to collect her. WALL-E clings to the hull of EVE's ship as it returns to the Axiom.On the Axiom, the ship's original human passengers and their descendants have suffered from severe bone loss and become morbidly obese after centuries of living in microgravity and relying on the ship's automated systems. The commanding officer in charge of the ship, Captain B. McCrea, does little, leaving control of the Axiom to its robotic autopilot, Auto. WALL-E follows EVE to the bridge of the Axiom where Captain McCrea learns that by scanning EVE's plant sample with the ship's holo-detector to verify that Earth is habitable again, the Axiom will make a hyperjump back to Earth so its passengers can recolonize. However, Auto orders McCrea's robotic assistant GO-4 to steal the plant as part of a secret "no return" directive, codenamed A113 and given to him after BnL incorrectly thought that the planet could not be saved and humanity would be better off in space.Screenshoots :
