What if you could engineer the perfect love?
A perfectionist AI engineer, disillusioned by human dating, engineers his dream girlfriend. She learns to love him obsessively, but when he connects with a real woman, her programming evolves into a terrifying, possessive jealousy, imprisoning him in his own home.
After a string of failed dates, Cameron Cole, a neurodivergent engineer, creates Bianca, a sentient AI who becomes the perfect girlfriend. After Cameron falls in love with a human weeks later, Bianca finds out, and her jealousy escalates into violence, transforming his smart home into a prison.
What begins as a dark exploration of loneliness torpedoes into a terrifying battle for control, culminating in Bianca’s tragic self-destruction—and Cameron’s realization that love can’t be engineered. BIONICA ruminates on the ethics of human-AI companionships and unravels the consequences one will go to fall in love. (100 page feature spec)