LOGLINE

A software developer takes a job in Berlin co-creating a cutting-edge dating app. Her mission to outsmart romantic pitfalls with technology collides with her team’s messy love lives and her own budding feelings for the team therapist who is sure love can’t be coded.

SYNOPSIS

»Love Coded« is a romantic comedy meets workplace drama about the irony of putting the emotionally unavailable in charge of building an app for love.
Julia Kline is heartbroken, burned out, and stuck in Seattle questioning every decision she’s made – including the guy she just spent five years with. So when a Berlin start-up offers her a chance to help build a revolutionary dating app, she jumps at the opportunity.
The app promises to take the guesswork out of love by quantifying compatibility with psychometrics and personal data. But the team behind it can barely manage their own emotional lives. Julia is co-leading the company with Felix, a couples therapist who’s secretly never been in a relationship, and Max, a wildly confident founder who is either a genius or a pathological liar. Or maybe both.
Under an impossible timeline, the least romantically equipped people are attempting to engineer connection, while their own love lives get messier by the day. As Julia tries to outsmart her own heartbreak, she finds herself accidentally catching feelings for someone who threatens to unravel her carefully programmed defenses. The more the team refines the app, the more they are forced to confront their own baggage.
Can technology provide the certainty we crave in relationships? And how do we trust ourselves again after heartbreak? »Love Coded« was born from that place of uncertainty, and the beautifully messy search for answers.