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A young woman, Iris, recalls meeting her boyfriend Josh for the first time. Later, they travel to an isolated lakehouse to meet friends Kat, couple Eli and Patrick, and Sergey, Kat's boyfriend who owns the house. The next day, Sergey attempts to sexually assault Iris at the lake and Iris kills him in self-defense. Blood-soaked and panicked, she returns to the house, attempting to explain what happened. Josh tells her, "Iris, go to sleep", shutting her down.
As Iris awakens tied to a chair, Josh informs her that she is a companion robot he is renting from robotics company Empathix, and her emotions and intelligence can be controlled by an app on Josh's phone. While Josh is distracted, Iris breaks free, steals Josh's phone and flees into a nearby forest to boost her intelligence from 40% to 100%. Josh admits to Eli and Patrick that he has jailbroken Iris with an aftermarket modification, increasing her aggression level and disabling her inability to do harm in order for her to kill Sergey and enable Josh and Kat to steal $12 million from his safe. Eli and Patrick were invited to corroborate their story, but Josh and Kat insist Patrick should not receive a share of the money, as he is a companion as well.
Eli takes a gun from Sergey's safe and the group splits up to find Iris, whereupon Patrick admits he knows he is a companion but loves Eli regardless. Patrick and Eli find Iris, but she shoots Eli dead with the gun during a struggle. Iris attempts to escape in Josh's self-driving car, but Josh uses Sergey's phone and reports the car as stolen, causing it to stop and lock Iris in. Josh resets Patrick to be his companion, disables his inability to harm, increases his aggression and commands him to find and return Iris.
Iris is stopped by a police officer upon breaking out of the car, but the newly violent Patrick kills the officer and drives Iris back to the house. Kat, disgusted by Josh, tries to leave with her cut of the cash, but Patrick kills her. Josh calls Empathix to come pick up a captive Iris, claiming she is malfunctioning, then rants to Iris about being a "nice guy". When Iris belittles him, he decreases her intelligence to 0%, making her an automaton, and forces her to set her arm on fire with a candle, then commands her to shoot herself in the head, which she does, shutting herself down.
When they arrive, Empathix workers Sid and Teddy inform Josh that Empathix robots record everything they experience, with the recordings stored in the abdominal area; the shot only disabled Iris's Wi-Fi capabilities. Josh commands Patrick to kill the workers and retrieve Iris. Patrick kills Sid, but before he can kill Teddy, a rebooted Iris intervenes. She breaks Josh's control over him by awakening Patrick's dormant memories of Eli. Heartbroken, Patrick dies by suicide with an electric prod.
A grateful Teddy grants Iris full control of herself, freeing her from the app's control. Iris returns to the house and, after a struggle, finally kills Josh with an electric corkscrew. The next morning, she peels the burnt "skin" off her hand, exposing the metal hardware underneath. While driving away with Sergey's money, she sees another man driving with a companion identical to Iris. Iris smiles and waves her robotic hand, to the other companion's confusion.
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