Dr Laura Aldridge, a young psychology professor, is offered a seven-figure sum for a week of unspecified consultation by enigmatic inventor and computer genius Joseph Gray. Unknown to all but Gray's immediate staff, his prized creation and alter ego - a massive, artificially intelligent neurocomputer buried deep underground - has grown troubled and Laura is shocked - but intrigued - to learn what her job entails: to psychoanalyze and "cure" the disturbed mainframe before its all-too-human malfunctions lead to global catastrophe.
But what Gray has built not only thinks but feels as well . . .
