Galaxy Express 999: Tetsurou Hoshino is a boy bent on obtaining an immortal mechanical body in order to take revenge against his mother’s murderer, the machine man Count Mecha.
Accepting her proposition, Tetsurou boards the cosmic railway with Maetel and begins a journey across the galaxy.
After swiping a pass, Tetsurou is pursued by the police and ends up collapsing into the arms of a mysterious woman named Maetel, who closely resembles his mother.