When Sandi, a sex-bot, has a malfunction that grants her self-awareness, she flees from the syndicate that made her.  An escaped sex-bot, she falls for Damien, a roguish starship captain and pirate, who rescues her from an existence as a slave for the crime syndicate.  When she realizes that he wants a smart girl that acts dumb, Sandi’s body grows and she starts speaking “bimbo”, becoming his dream girl.  She stays metallic-looking until waking up, finding she now has human-looking synth-skin and finding out that the captain made a deal with the syndicate, buying her and freeing her.