Matt joins that small group of computer programmers in an automobile company to help them manage their projects. He is soon investigating an allegation that the group had sent misleading information about the company to a government agency. Before he can even realize it, he is learning a programming language to understand how things went wrong. Despite these troubled times, Matt finds a special person becoming a part of his life. Burdened with the pain of the divorce of his parents, Kavitha's friendship is quite a palliative to him. She herself is no less disillusioned with relationships. Together, they try to understand that exotic institution called marriage, and why it struggles to survive in modern times. Their jobs also lead them into the political twists of their corporate world. Cobol, with Love shows the inner workings of the ubiquitous world of 'computer programmers' and exposes the crime, corruption, and nepotism lurking in that mysterious world.