The film follows five students as the world around them is transformed into chaos from an unexplained airborne plague of infection that turns their classmates into primal and bloodthirsty horrors. The five fight their through dorks, weirdo's and the school principal trying to get out alive, finally they find the A/V clubs video camera and barricade themselves into the school theater.

Over the course of a long, booze-filled Halloween in Los Angeles, four romantic relationships unexpectedly affect the fate of the others. A dark romantic comedy, shot in beautiful black & white on a budget of just under $2,000, I'm Trying To Impress You takes a raw, cool and sometimes fantastical look at young romance in the 21st century.