Alice (Katana Kombat) wakes with a start at her office workstation and trades texts with Molly (Jane Wilde), who picks her up in a rideshare and hands her a skintight dress to wear to go clubbing to celebrate her birthday, admonishing the driver "Keep your eyes on the road!" When the driver hits somebody ("Not again!") he pulls a gun and chases them out of the car. They take the victim, Brett (Jessy Jones), to his nearby apartment and Alice, fearing a concussion, takes matters into her own hands to keep him awake until the danger passes. When Brett's girlfriend unexpectedly returns, she takes a gun out of her bag and shoots him right between the eyes, waking Alice with a start as she dozes at her workstation, asking "What?"

The time-warp repeats as Molly picks her up in the rideshare but this time Alice flashes back to the murder of Brett and leaves the car in a panic after changing into the skintight number. This time, she meets Hunter (Emma Hix), lost and looking for her address. Hunter asks Alice to walk her back because there's a serial killer in the neighborhood. "How do you know I'm not the serial killer?" Alice asks. "In that dress?" Hunter shoots back. At Hunter's place, Alice lets slip that it's her birthday and Hunter offers her a gift-wrapped fancy bra-and-G-string set. "I got it for a friend, but she's about your size. Try it on." It doesn’t stay on for long, although Alice is startled by Hunter's comment "You look just like her." After their tryst, Hunter excuses herself and comes back in a yellow jumpsuit, wearing a wolf mask and wielding an axe. She swings the axe and it connects as Alice wakes with a start at her workstation, exclaiming "Mother. Fucker!" 

In the next go-round, Alice anticipates pricky supervisor Seth Gamble's repeated questions about her quarterly reports and this go-round she decides to stay in the office for an all-nighter to finish them up. "Are you mocking me?" Gamble demands. "I'm not stupid." When Alice says it's her choice, she needs more discipline, it gets his attention, and when she says she should be tied to a chair to get her work done, he returns with a rope. When Molly walks in on them in mid-fuck, she laconically applauds ("That's a birthday!") and encourages Gamble to continue ("Get back in there, Champ!") as she pulls up a chair to watch, and then join in in an energetic three-way. After Gamble splits, Alice tells Molly about the time warping, and she grasps it immediately: "So, it's like one of those movies with a repeating day? There's been, like, six of them. And a TV show too. It's a really heavily-explored premise, you ought to watch more movies. I'm gonna help you figure this out. Tonight. But first, you want something from the store?" Alice says she wants something soft, and after Molly rushes out, clothes in hand, Alice realizes Molly is going out to buy her a dress.

Alone in the rideshare car, Molly reads the label on the dress—Eternal Returns—and pieces it together: "Just like mother used to say: 'When you buy a dress from a vintage store, always check for bedbugs ... and curses." This time Molly dons the dress and walks in on a poker game, winning stacks of money ("It would help if you didn’t bite your lip every time you bluff") and seducing KIra Noir out from under her husband ("I didn’t see a wedding ring." "That's because you won it.") When hubby walks in, Molly coolly asks him "You gonna shoot me, or what?" and when she wakes up back in the rideshare, she tells the driver "I'm gonna rob a bank." Dressed in the skintight sheath and wearing a figure-8 mask, she gets away clean, then returns to fuck bank employee Michael Vegas on a pile of stolen loot, explaining she's done it over and over again, which explains why she knew the deli orders of the victims and brought their sandwiches when she came in to rob them. When the cops disrupt their afterglow with a flash-bang grenade, the ka-pow sends her back to the back seat of the rideshare. 

A business card in the dress sends Molly to a necromancy shop operated by Xander Corvus and Ashley Lane. When Molly demands an explanation and Corvus says "it’s complicated," Wilde snaps "I have all the time in the world." When they reveal that the dress has the capacity to help her feel everything all the wearers have ever felt, Molly chooses to add one more memory to the dress with Corvus and Lane. Now understanding, Molly faces the choice of keeping the dress or moving on to the next day.

Cheerfully self-referential and never taking itself seriously (When Wilde produces a large canvas bag emblazoned with a giant dollar sign. Vegas incredulously asks "Do people use these things?" and Wilde responds "It's a stylistic flourish."), Better Things to Do cleverly uses its serialized format to cumulatively tell its story, adding new details in each installment. Superlative videography by Clousot adds value.