Darius (Aubrey Plaza) is an intern at a magazine and gets sent along with a writer, Jeff, and another intern, Arnau (played by Jake Johnson and Karan Soni, respectively) to investigate a classified ad requesting a partner to travel through time.
This leads them to Kenneth (Mark Duplass), who works at a grocer, but spends a lot of time chatting with quantum physicists online and scouting out medical research laboratories. Johnson's attempt to talk with Kenneth by approaching him as a potential applicant falls through, but Plaza succeeds. Getting Kenneth to actually spill the beans about his plans means spending a lot of time with him, so things go from there.
It's basically about not getting hung up on the past. Kenneth isn't over some coworker that was nice to him a decade ago. Darius lost her mother when she was a kid and has a lot of unresolved guilt over that. Jeff takes the opportunity to try and reconnect with his high school sweetheart. Everyone other than Arnau is trying to get back to some better point in the past, to correct their fuck-ups and do things "right". (Arnau, near as I can tell, is both focused on his future, while being scared of making his own fuck-up in the present.)
Duplass plays Kenneth in this way where some times he just seems like a hopeless goober lost in a fantasy, but shows these flashes of frustration that are just enough you wonder if he might be dangerous. Plaza has a lot of that exasperated/disgusted air she used on Parks & Recreation, but she manages to shift it just enough it makes Darius come off as socially awkward, rather than her being deliberately an asshole.
I don't know how I feel about the ending, and without spoiling it, that's about all I can say.
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