Synopsis
Together with her close friends, KORINA (27) launches a startup based on a genius new vision of a Virtual Reality-AI product that makes it possible to have an advanced AI version of ChatGPT but look and act like a flesh-and-blood personal assistant.
After the initial happiness of finding investors and signing a lucrative deal, they realize that their benefactors have their own plan: using the new AI bot for a breakthrough VR porn experience.
The young business can’t get out of the contract and is forced to adapt to the new situation. And soon avatars for the VR models are scanned from real people. This is how Korina meets a mysterious girl from Serbia MIA (20s) and falls in love with her. But soon Mia disappears without a trace and one of Mia’s AI-bot users is found dead.
To her biggest horror, Korina discovers that the models for the AI/VR were escorts in real life – something she would never approve of. The police start investigating the murder of their user and Korina is the only one who believes that Mia, the prime suspect, isn’t a killer – especially when her dead body is discovered.
The other models, still working as escorts, hesitate to cooperate, understandably feeling scared for their lives. But what is worse, Korina realizes she can’t trust any of her close friends as all of them seem to know more than they say. She is all alone on her journey to discover a murderer, navigating a thin line between virtual fantasy and dead-serious reality – and the ones being ready to cross it.
Writer’s statement
New technologies are not only transforming the way we work but are also carving out vast grey areas in our private lives – particularly in matters of love and sexuality. Can our most intimate fantasies unfold in the digital realm and not affect real life?We’ve already had people committing suicide over chatbots. The rabbit hole is endless once entered in a world that feels so real, yet it isn’t. The boundary between the digital realm and reality is dissolving, and as these worlds intertwine, they confront us with moral and emotional confusion.To explore this theme, we have chosen the framework of a thriller — a genre we believecan capture the high stakes and psychological weight of the subject. At the heart of the story lies a murder. When the crime occurs, the delicate line between fantasy and reality begins to unravel. To uncover the truth, the protagonist must navigate this intersection, ultimately forcing her to question her friends, her beliefs, and the changing nature of the world around her.
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