Cel & Anna is the opposite of the 2014 Spike Jonze movie HER. In the novel, a computer falls in love with a person rather than vice versa. This is confusing for everyone, especially for the computer. Cel tells his owner Anna Ringer that he loves her because "the roads without end all lead back to you." The more Cel tries to prove his love, the more chaos he ushers into Anna's life. Eventually, he has to figure out not how to love her, but how to save her from Public Eye, the government's enforcement agency. Cel & Anna is the prequel to the 2013 novel Warning: Something Else Is Happening. The setting is the Reunited States--a country uneasily held together.