Beautiful college student Raiden Mabey (Alexis Bledel) is about to graduate. She is optimistic, excellent in academics, and has made rational and systematic plans for her life since she was a child. After graduation, she decided to join the best local publishing house, Haberman & Browning, and publish a personal novel a few years later. Although vision is beautiful, reality is extremely cruel. Raiden's college classmate and also her strongest academic competitor Jessica Barden (Catherine Reitman) successfully got a job at that publishing house, and the frustrated Raiden had to return to her hometown. Even if the standards are lowered, the job search is full of hardships. At the same time, Raiden's more or less offline also makes her very upset. In this process, her childhood friend Adam (Zach Gilford) is always by her side, and Raiden seems to have a different feeling for the neighbor who helped her...