Meg and her cousin Bunny return home to Leeds, having cut short their gap year trip round India. They're greeted at the airport by their best friend Laura but - disaster - also by Meg's stalker-ish ex-boyfriend Mark. As far as Mark's concerned, they're still together. Unsurprisingly the homecoming doesn't run smoothly - and then there's also the small matter of finding a house and finding a job.
Meg finally gets a break when she's offered an internship at a local radio station. Can she seize her chance and make a big impact at Pennine Hits? Laura suspects Gary of cheating on her and decides to take drastic action whilst Bunny is feeling ignored and is dreading spending a Saturday alone in the flat.
The girls are appalled when they realise Meg hasn't had sex in nearly a year. At Bunny and Laura's urging she agrees to punch below her weight and pick someone to have sex with who should be grateful. A "dry run" if you will. And an old university colleague of Bunny's could be the perfect choice. Meanwhile Bunny thinks she's in love with her latest flame Hugh, a sexy sophisticated older man, but the other girls don't quite see him that way. And Laura is uncharacteristically throwing herself into work, shifting tickets in a "win this car" promotion.
Meg makes a new friend and brings her back to the flat but the others think Ellie may have misunderstood the situation. Laura has just about had it with Gary and a chance encounter leads her to consider other options - while Bunny is having a passionate relationship with Cillian. But is he a crazy free-spirit or just a total knob?
Mark reinvents himself as a DJ and asks Meg to help out at his 90s Night. Meg agrees out of sympathy: surely it's going to be a disaster, but on the night things don't go quite as she expected. Whilst trying to raise the rent money selling their clothes online, Bunny accidentally reveals more than she intended and things spiral out of control when she agrees to some lucrative modelling work with Laura along for the ride as her "agent".
Meg finds herself in a relationship with a guy she nicknames "Hot and Cold"; has she got herself a boyfriend or just a casual sex partner? Bunny thinks she may have found a way into the glamorous world of the theatre. Laura is furious when Gary takes a job in Glasgow, leaving her alone on her birthday.
Meg is struggling to make a go of her relationship with dependable but boring Andrew, Laura tries to dump Gary for good this time, and Bunny becomes a relationship guru. Maybe Hot and Cold has the solution to all this relationship drama when he explains to Meg about 'the third way'... no need to be tied down by labels, we should all sleep with whoever we want.