It seems quite obvious to her after the first few weeks at one of the most prestigious colleges in the world that Emma Brown is not up for this torture of a college life. Suffocating in a hell of what seem to her naive pestering creatures aka humans, Emma begins to ease to the idea of walking to and from her classes to her dorm...until... A certain guy called Hero Fiennes Tiffin is admitted to Harvard as well and Emma's already crowded class is now annoyingly surrounded by a few of the above-mentioned creatures which share her gender as well...