Two androids, Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), escape a war-ravaged Earth, taking with them twelve human embryos.

Four years later, only Mother, Father, Campion (Winta McGrath), and his sister, Spiria (Bronte Carmichael), remain.

Mother begins teaching her children about atheism and a religious order on Earth known as the Mithraic; having been programmed by atheists, she emphasizes that their new colony on Kepler-22b must be rooted in science, rather than "fantasy".

Concerned about the fate of Campion as the sole surviving human, Father attempts to communicate with the Mithraic, whose spacecraft (an ark dubbed Heaven) has arrived at Kepler-22b and is orbiting the planet.

[1] "Raised by Wolves" premiered on September 3, 2020 on the subscription video on demand streaming service HBO Max.

[3] Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter said that the episode was a "promising start" to the series, adding that it was "an intriguingly enigmatic crossroads".