Kloser: An A.I. Ghost Story
When a grieving mother creates an avatar of her dead teenage daughter, she's pulled into a web of conspiracy that is dangerously close to home.
When a grieving mother creates an avatar of her dead teenage daughter, she's pulled into a web of conspiracy that is dangerously close to home.
When 16-year-old Lola washes up dead on the beach in what the police deem a death by suicide, her mother, Ines, can’t accept that her daughter would take her own life. She finds an A.I. companion app on Lola’s phone and uses it to generate and train an increasingly realistic avatar of her daughter with the aim of finding out what really happened to her and who was involved. At first, the A.I. seems to be pointing Ines towards believable suspects and revealing Lola’s hidden double life. Ines finds and confronts a secret ex of Lola’s and eventually even turns her suspicion on her own partner, Lola’s stepfather. However, as Ines removes protective guardrails from the system and falls deeper into isolation and grief, the lines between reality and paranoia blur. The avatar becomes less of a companion and more of a monster who haunts her and eventually threatens both her sanity and her life.