In a secretive research facility disguised as a mental hospital, Dr. Halberg seeks to weaponize a new type of alien symbiote called an ambiote - a creature that bonds with a host to survive. Years of failed experiments leave the ambiote violent and uncooperative, killing every test subject it encounters. That is, until Iris, an eight-year-old girl with red hair and emerald eyes, is brought in. Unlike anyone before her, she shows no fear, and the ambiote bonds with her willingly. As the creature, now calling itself Friend, reveals its true form, Iris begins an extraordinary bond with it - one that blurs the line between human and alien, innocence and power, and threatens the control of the scientists who once sought to dominate it.
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