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The first humanoid robot to get equal rights, an AI built in the form of a female robot, lives in luxury, while Khamla, a low-caste woman, lives in abject poverty. Her dissatisfaction makes Khamla an easy target for recruitment by revolutionaries, who send her to kill the AI while they target its scientist creators.
