 Clueless Midwesterner Paul Tannek (Jason Biggs) arrives in New York City to go to college at NYU only to run into one complication and mishap after another. When Paul is branded a loser by his three outgoing dorm roommates who then boot him from their room, Paul settles in a room at a veterinary clinic where, by accident, he meets and falls in love with Dora Diamond (Mena Suvari), a fellow coed who is dating their unscrupulous literacy professor (Greg Kinnear).