It's Junior year, and the gang throws a HBCU-themed Homecoming party to kick off the semester. Zoey returns from her summer abroad and realizes that she has to quickly confront her feelings for Aaron and Luca.
The Johnson family's firstborn daughter Zoey leaves the family to go to college. As she attends the California University of Liberal Arts (Cal U for short) while befriending some people, she discovers that her journey to adulthood and her departure from the family does not go the way she hoped.