It is 1961 and aspiring young folk singer, Llewyn Davis is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles - some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the basket houses of Greenwich Village to an empty Chicago club - on an odyssey to audition for a music mogul - and back again.
