टूटे हुए दिल के साथ न्यू यॉर्क की एक लड़की प्यार की तलाश में लंदन आती है. वहां उसे एक इंडी म्यूज़ीशियन से प्यार हो जाता है, जो एक रोमांटिक हीरो की तरह बिल्कुल नहीं है.

Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.

The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.