Way back in the late 2010s live Jerome and Polly, two recent college graduates. Jerome is a man with very strong convictions who is too disgusted by the world to take part in it. Polly is a girl with very weak convictions who is too intimidated by the world to take part in it. When a chance meeting causes their parallel paths to converge, each finds the most surprising thing of all: a friend. The question that remains is whether each has found a companion for venturing into a dark world—or simply company for lamenting the world's misery.