It follows unpopular high school student and social outcast Jeremy Heere, who is considered a loser by his peers.

Deeply unsatisfied with his poor reputation and lack of romantic and sexual progress with his crush Christine, Jeremy obtains a SQUIP (an acronym for Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor), a supercomputer in the form of a pill that travels to his brain upon ingestion and radically transforms Jeremy’s behavior and social status by giving him advice on how to be cool.

Jeremy attends the fictional Middle Borough High School and is considered a loser by many of his peers; the popular girls have no interest in him, and he is constantly bullied.

Michael tells Jeremy that he's vaguely heard of a pill that can improve someones life; he thinks it's called a "script" and he suspects his brother used one to get a high SAT score.

Jeremy proceeds to save up money by visiting his Aunt Linda's to clean her roof gutter but to also sell some of her Beanie Baby collection on eBay.

The two friends attend a house party, where Jeremy hooks up with Chloe Valentine, but upon taking ecstasy the SQUIP goes haywire and begins speaking in Spanish.

A chase and hideout in a bathroom later has Jeremy having a genuine conversation with Christine, who informs him that she broke up with her boyfriend Jake.

Jeremy begins by deactivating the SQUIP and saying how he's praying for Rich to recover, and how Christine inspired him to join the play.

The SQUIP reveals it was unable to proceed further at Christine's rejection and believed based on calculation that the plan should have worked, but also that numbers alone do not always determine a probable outcome.

A musical based on the book, with a score by Joe Iconis, premiered in June 2015 at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, where it received positive reviews.

20th Century Studios, who acquired the rights prior to their acquisition by The Walt Disney Company, and with whom Berlanti and Levy have first look deals with, will distribute.