The Very Nice Box follows Ava Simon, a storage designer for STADA, a slick Brooklyn-based furniture company. She's hard-working, obsessive, and heartbroken from a tragedy that killed her girlfriend and upended her life. It's been years since she's let anyone in. But when Ava's new boss - the young and magnetic Mat Putnam - offers Ava a ride home one afternoon, an unlikely relationship blossoms. Ava remembers how rewarding it can be to open up - and, despite her instincts, she becomes enamoured. But Mat isn't who he claims to be, and the romance takes a sharp turn...