Over the course of a summer, we follow the idealistic space cadet Ali in pursuit of his dream girl: the gorgeous, spiritual and insightful Chelsea. While most people fall in love, Ali belly-flops into it. For him, friendship is eternal, music is emotion, drugs are life-enhancers, and love is pure and poetic. However, he is about to find out how finite and fickle these conceptions are. Between his cynical best friend Jake, the off-his-lips party-animal Yogi and the contradictory hipster Stacey, Ali tries to make sense of life, believing the answer is Chelsea.