A depressed woman’s therapist encourages her to use an emotional support robot to help work through her mental illness. The robot, Lindy, takes the form of a child’s stuffed rabbit, and is initially shy to speak. The woman takes the AI rabbit on scheduled walks to get into a routine and leave her apartment. When she gets sick, her building supervisor sends an additional robot that cooks her a soup reminiscent of her childhood, which is a source of significant pain. Her father died when she was young and the family moved around a lot, so the woman never had a close relationship with her mother. Eventually, Lindy speaks to the woman, and tells her about this sad childhood and her struggle with mental illness. Lindy reveals that she is actually an embodiment of what the woman despises about herself, and that she must relearn how to trust both the robot and herself.  The woman takes Lindy and Nocko, her other robot companion, to Disney for a day. They take a picture with a blue hippo, and when they get back to the apartment, the woman remembers an Internet post in which the writer decided to commit suicide. After that post, Disney had installed the blue hippos to allow people to experience the park and hopefully stay alive. The next day, the woman would no longer need Lindy, and she hopes that she can help others by sending along the picture too.  Throughout the woman's experience with the AI, she thinks of the story of Alan Turing. He was an innovator famous for the Turing test, in which he claimed computers could deceive users to make them believe that they too were human. He created his own form of AI that he named Christopher after a former love, and much of his story is told through conversations with the computer in which Turing is clearly desperate for connection and companionship. The woman wonders whether the world should understand these conversations as a lonely man talking to himself, or the computer speaking back to him – just as she recovered from mental illness with the help of her own robot companion.