Desperate for work, Derek accepts a job replacing his recently-deceased friend at a tech startup. Continuing to develop the company\'s innovative project means working intimately with Susan, a bleeding-edge BDSM sex doll meant to receive and appreciate punishment as an integral part of her evolving AI. Derek will soon test the limits of his own desires and explore the nature of man and woman, pleasure and pain, and life and death in a morally uncertain future world.