After graduating from college, Hannah (Greta Gerwig) gets rid of her uninspired musician boyfriend (Mark Duplass), goes to work as an intern at a Chicago production company and develops new crushes on co-workers Matt and Paul. Director Joe Swanberg guides an inspired cast (which includes several aspiring filmmakers) that uses handheld video, improvised plot lines and episodic story structures to express a new idiom for life as a 20-something.