A senior at a Catholic all - girls school in 2002 — the same year Gerwig graduated from St. Francis — Lady Bird suffers from a chronic case of teenage
boredom,
exacerbated by such youthful ensnarements and pitfalls as an atypical first love, a disheartening first time (her first love not present), family money woes, a hypercritical mother and, most importantly, an irrepressible desire to see all of it grow smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror.