The series follows a group of young adults whose lives were being filmed for a documentary just before their graduation from fictional Greenbelt High School in Austin , Texas in 2000 . The group includes the Overachiever , the Beauty Queen , the Nerd , the Punk , the Jock , the Brain , the Rich Kid , the Rock Star , and the Wallflower . Their hopes and dreams for the future were recorded , and as they meet up ten years later , they find that things do not always go as planned . Several of the characters ' lives after high school are affected by or tied to real-world events such as the September 11 attacks , the Enron scandal , and the War in Afghanistan . The series is set in the present with flashbacks to the past
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
My Generation (TV series)