With high school now just a fleeting nightmare, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) graduates to college and finds not only new academic crises, but ghost-ridden ones as well. Buffy's boyfriend, Angel the vampire, is now dead to the real world as well, leaving her plenty of opportunities for romance, as well as facing the harpies of hell, who continue to haunt her. College is infinitely more difficult and dangerous than high school. To help her cope, Buffy takes on a tutor in her Grand-Guiginol studies, former friend Rupert Giles, the resident expert on darkness, devils and all things evil. Giles can certainly help, but when it comes to fighting darkness, Buffy is all on her own.