Two college students, Frances and Bobbi, forge a strange and unexpected relationship with a married couple.

Once considered a teen prodigy, a recovering addict sobers up and tries to get her writing career back on track. She begins a relationship with a rising author known for his wartime memoirs.

Life at a convent takes an unruly turn when three unconventionally opinionated nuns cross paths with a tempting new gardener.

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.