After a Black Union physician's regiment is destroyed, he flees into the Virginian woods, stumbling on a Confederate soldier hiding in a cave.

An earnest young feminist joins forces with a low-rent publisher to make the world's first erotic magazine for women.

Jill is a little in love with her best friend Chloe and a little terrified to say anything to her about it, even though their roommate Sarah is both convinced that the feelings are mutual and sick to death of waiting for one of them to make a move. When the gang's New Year's Eve party ends with one hook-up, one not-quite-hookup, and one not-quite-breakup, everyone is left re-examining what they thought they knew about themselves and each other.