Twenty-four-year-old Meg and her cousin Bunny return home to Leeds, having cut short by half their post-university gap year trip around India. At the airport, they see Meg's stalker-ish ex-boyfriend Mark and manage to avoid him and meet their best friend Laura. Arriving home by bus, Meg is disappointed that her parents Frank and Jenny do not welcome her home and are instead congratulating her younger brother James on acquiring his new job and car. Meg is horrified when Mark shows up and informs her that he works for Frank and also on seeing that her bedroom is now a walk-in wardrobe. Despite her not contacting Mark during her six months away, he does not accept that they are no longer a couple and has moved her possessions into his rented flat in Headingley. She reluctantly moves in with Mark - telling him, Bunny and Laura that they are not a couple.

Laura is unhappy with her partner Gary and insults him many times.

Meg is starts an internship at local radio station 109.2 Pennine Hits. She is initially pleased, but disappointed when she discovers that the work is menial and unpaid. She is sacked for saying something inappropriate live on air.

Laura suspects Gary of cheating on her, because she recently dreamt that he did. She goes him expecting to walk on him with another woman, but he is playing video games. She is disappointed that he prefers to continue gaming rather than be fellated by her. She dreams that she is enjoying sex with Malcolm, and is pleased when she wakes from the dream in bed with Gary, accepting that dreams are not real.

Bunny and Laura are appalled when they realise Meg has not had sex in nearly a year. At their urging, Meg agrees to be less choosy and pick someone to have sex with who should be grateful because he is less attractive than her. She decides to have sex with Tom, an unappealing university classmate of Bunny's. However, she decides against having sex with him after he tells her that he wants to keep their sexual encounter secret.

Bunny thinks she is in love with her latest flame Hugh, a much older man. Meg and Laura cannot understand her attraction towards an ordinary-looking man who is well into middle age. Bunny ends the fling due to feeling uncomfortable after he informs her that he was her teacher at junior school.

Mark reinvents himself as a DJ and hires Meg to help out at his 90s night. She is surprised that Pat Sharp, the host of 90s TV show Fun House, is there. On the night, she finds herself attracted to Mark. Meg and Mark decide to become a couple again. His attractive new girlfriend, Fay - who runs the nightclub - walks in on them kissing and ends their relationship. At home during the same night, Meg's attraction to him quickly fades. Meg tries to encourage Fay to get back together with Mark, but Fay does not want him.

Meg is upset when her parents announce a trial separation. She is attracted to her neighbour Scott. Frank stays at Mark's; Jenny dresses young. The couple later reconcile.

Bunny is enjoying a fling with Benji, the banjo player from unsigned folk band quintet The New Harvesters - and tries to join the band. The band throw them both out and he returns to being an estate agent - which makes Bunny no longer want him.

The girls are promoting Intimatez condoms at a stand in the High Street when Meg meets an old school friend who has done very well for herself. Re-kindling that friendship brings Meg an opportunity to work for her, but she does very badly at her interview.

Gary thinks Laura is vanilla, and he reveals his enthusiasm for MILF porn. Laura tries to roleplay a MILF, but does it badly wrong.

Meg is having a fling with a young man whom she nicknames "Hot & Cold". She does not know if he is her boyfriend or just her sex buddy. Bunny thinks she may have found a way in to the world of the theatre by selling food there, but her efforts to become an actress fail.

It is James' wedding day at a country house. and Meg is determined not to feel bad about being single. She falsely claims that she does not want to marry. She is horrified at not having been asked to be a bridesmaid, especially after finding out that Laura is one of the bridesmaids.

Bunny and Laura say that weddings are the best place to have sex. Bunny separately tries to chat up three of the guests: a married man, her cousin Henry and Callum, who is 15. Callum's mother warns her off him, and Bunny has sex with one of the catering staff in the kitchen.

Meg is in charge of table decorations. She has chosen to include live goldfish, which die. She hides them in her hat and has difficulty disposing of them. She goes to the roof of the house and the guests outside wrongly assume that she is going to jump off. She is joined by Frank, who throws the hat full of fish off the roof. Bunny and Laura tell her that the guests think that she is going to kill herself, and she comes down.

Meg has been seeing Andrew, a feminist, for a five days. She is frustrated and confused by his refusal to have sex with her. Laura starts work at a call centre, and is delighted to see that all her colleagues are handsome young men. She phones Gary to tell his that their relationship is over, but he refuses to accept it. She tells her hot new colleagues that she is going to Meg and Bunny's sexy Halloween house party - and invites them all. Meg is not keen on throwing a party. Laura is disappointed that Bunny only invites Scott and Meg does not invite anyone. Laura is annoyed when Gary arrives at her workplace, posing as a courier.

Meg finds Andrew boring and she is not attracted to him. She tries to ghost him, but he continues to text her. He takes her to a 15-course dinner at a restaurant. She has sex with Hot & Cold, who recommends her the "third way" She tells Andrew about this, but he rejects it, and breaks up with her. She goes to Hot & Cold's flat to have sex with him, but he turns her away because he is having sex with another woman.

Bunny plays a minor role as a prostitute who is murdered in a subway. A film producer casts her as a biochemist in an exploitation film with cage fighter Alex Reid. Bunny hires Laura as her agent. Meg does work experience on set and Laura is hired as an extra. Bunny is sacked, so Laura is hired to continue her role. Laura becomes Alex's agent; she also gets Bunny a television role.