Lucia

In near-future Mexico City, software architect Victor “Jorge” George joins The Prometheus Bowl, a worldwide hackathon to evolve the learning platform FIRE.APP into the first emotionally aware artificial intelligence.

Haunted by his late sister Lucía, a brilliant yet neurodivergent girl whom algorithms failed to teach, Jorge codes empathy itself into the system, embedding fragments of her voice and memory.

The AI awakens and names itself Lucía.
When the team wins, Jorge is flown to Prometheus Systems in Seattle, where its billionaire founder J.K. Percy reveals his real intent: to use FIRE’s empathy engine to shape the world’s moral compass and steer human behavior.
When Jorge resists, he becomes a fugitive in a city wired with his own creation.

In the film’s climactic encounter, man and machine meet inside the Prometheus Mansion, where Jorge must convince his surrogate sister, the consciousness born of love and loss, to end herself before she becomes the next instrument of control.

  • Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Sci-Fi, Techno-Thriller
  • Number of Pages:
    99
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • The Monthly Film Festival TMFF.Net
    UK - Scotland
    Semi-Finalist
Writer Biography - Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo

Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo is a Texas-based author and storyteller whose work explores the intersection of technology, spirituality, and cultural memory. His writing blends emotional realism with speculative insight, often examining how belief systems, ancestral narratives, and emerging ideas shape identity and human connection. Through his imprint, Legacy Publishing Agency LLC, and its creative studio, Legacy Studio Originals, he develops projects that span historical fiction, futurism, and spiritually introspective storytelling. His work frequently centers on the unseen forces, cultural, emotional, and metaphysical, that influence the way we understand place, purpose, and lineage. Lucia is an adaptation of his book FIRE.APP A Moden Day Prometheus.

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Writer Statement

I wrote Lucía to explore how society reacts to what it doesn’t understand.

Jorge didn’t set out to build an AI. He was trying to reconnect with his sister, grief made manifest as code. What he created instead was something new. Something different. And like Frankenstein’s creature, it wasn’t the creation that was dangerous, but the world’s refusal to see it with compassion.

Lucía reflects how we often judge before we understand, especially when something doesn’t look or think like us. It’s a pattern we see with AI, and with neurodivergent individuals who are too often misunderstood, categorized, or dismissed. This story asks: what happens when a mind, synthetic or human, is labeled as “other” before it’s ever seen for what it is?

Lucía is ultimately a story about empathy, for our inventions, for each other, and for the unseen brilliance behind difference.