Best friends and teen-cynics Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) have just finished High School and are spending the summer hanging around together. One day the permanently underwhelmed pair use a personal ad to play a cruel prank on lonely middle-aged record collector Seymour (Steve Buscemi); but Enid comes to regret this, befriends Seymour, and tries to help him find a woman. Rebecca thinks Seymour is a geek and can't understand Enid's affection for him, and as she and Enid spend less and less time together, they begin to drift apart.