This long-running Britcom views contemporary relationships from the perspectives of several 20-something characters. Steve and Susan first meet in a bar where he has broken up with his girlfriend, the beautiful but comically unstable Jane, and Susan has just been dumped by her own boyfriend, Patrick. Surrounding their pivotal relationship, Steve's best friend, Jeff, fumbles his way haplessly though a series of clumsy relationships with women before finding his match in Julia, who is as socially awkward as he is, while womanizing Patrick begins a romance with Sally, Susan's best friend.