A brutal winter hits Sheffield, but things heat up when Esther has a fling with a faculty member! Daisy probably has a Friday Night Lights reference for this occasion...

Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends because their dorm rooms were next to each other. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.

When Freshers' Flu strikes the dorm, no one gets off easy. Daisy enters a one-sided relationship with an off-brand Polish cold cure given to her by Ed Gemmell, Susan is forced into nicotine withdrawal, and Esther becomes incapable of distinguishing fever dreams from reality. Death stalks the dorm halls by night!

It's time for end-of-semester exams, but Esther was "too busy living" to attend most of her lectures and it's up to Daisy and Susan to help her prepare. Meanwhile, Susan goes through the schmoopy romantic phase of a new relationship.

Are drugs good, bad, or indifferent? Daisy is going to discover the truth for herself when she makes friends with the very fun Erin, who gives her some "fun" pills. Unfortunately, Daisy's Granny decides it's the perfect time for a surprise visit, and it'll be up to Esther and Susan to help her keep it together.

Esther, Susan, and Daisy start the search for a house to rent for their second year quite late, so their options leave a lot to be desired.

The big end-of-year ball is approaching and Daisy is determined to kiss a girl, while Susan and Esther prepare for a summer of difficulty.

Creative tensions and "mildly erotic subcurrents" proliferate as Esther and her Svengali boyfriend battle Susan and Daisy for a £5,000 Film Festival prize.

After spending a dull summer apart, Esther, Daisy, and Susan attend a 3-day music festival that naturally ends in a battle for survival in an apocalyptic quagmire.

Daisy visits Esther's hometown to convince her to come back to University, while Susan spends her Easter break far away from her Northampton problems.