美丽大学生瑞登·梅比（阿里克西丝·布莱德尔 Alexis Bledel 饰）即将迎来毕业的那一天，她乐观向上，学业优秀，从小就对人生作出理性而系统的规划。毕业后她决定进入当地最棒的出版社哈伯曼&布朗宁，再于几年后发表一部个人小说。憧憬固然美好，但现实却无比残酷。瑞登的大学同学，同时也是她学业上最强劲的竞争对手杰西卡•巴登（凯瑟琳·雷特曼 Catherine Reitman 饰）成功得到那家出版社的工作，失意的瑞登只好返回家乡。即使降低了标准，求职之路也充满艰辛。与此同时，瑞登多少有些脱线也让她烦恼不已。在这一过程中，青梅竹马的好友亚当（扎克·吉尔福德 Zach Gilford 饰）始终陪在她的身边，而瑞登似乎又对帮助过自己的邻居有了别样的情感……Ryden Malby has planned her academic life since she was in high school to get a college scholarship; now she has just graduated in English and in her master plan she expects to get a job as assistant editor in the publishing house Happerman & Browning, in Los Angeles. Her platonic best friend is Adam Davis, who has a crush on her and is frequently close to her. However, her arrogant classmate Jessica Bard gets the position and Ryden is forced to return home in the suburb to live with her family: her optimistic father Walter, who wants to do everything by himself; her careful mother Carmella who administrates the short resources of her family; her eccentric grandmother Maureen; and her weird little brother Hunter, who wants to race in a boxcar derby. Ryden unsuccessfully seeks a job and feels frustrated, but is emotionally supported by Adam. When Walter accidentally runs over the cat of his next-door neighbor David Santiago with Ryden's car, they visit him to give their sympathies. Ryden feels attracted by the handsome Brazilian and has a brief affair with him, forgetting Adam, who decides to move to New York to study at Columbia Law School. Meanwhile Ryden is invited to join Happerman & Browning and discovers that feelings cannot be planned.
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