A preliminary theory of love

In his mid-thirties, Neill Bassett Jr. is back at square one. His young marriage has failed grandiosely, and now he has to engage in humiliating tennis evenings for singles. The only thing on the plus side of his life is the crazy diary his father left him, which landed him a job in Silicon Valley. He is supposed to use the 5,000 pages to program a computer capable of sensing. And while Neill is trying to find the reason for his father's suicide, the computer is making as much progress in love matters as he is.