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The phrase "a plot about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the central theme or storyline of a narrative, such as a book, movie, or play.
Example: "The novel features a plot about a young girl discovering her hidden powers in a magical world."
Alternatives: "a story concerning" or "a narrative regarding".
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This appealing novel sets itself a challenge: formulate a plot about formulating plots.
'It was a plot about the Russian Mob moving in on New York Mob territory,' he recalls.
(David Chase satirized their bloodlust with a plot about "Cleaver," a mob horror movie with all of the whackings, none of the Freud).
There's plenty of shooting, and a plot about evil corporations that wouldn't look too out of place in a William Gibson novel.
It's not that the show is revelatory art — a plot about Gordon receiving a diagnosis of brain damage verges on bathos.
When Pratt refused to give land for a North Carolina Railroad station, Bartlett Durham donated a plot about 2 miles (3 km) to the west.
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A sub-plot about Madonna as a homicide witness was included and became the trigger factor in the ecstasy part of the plot.
Here, disconcertingly, there are sequences (not explained at all) involving a family on stage in rabbit heads as well as a murky sub-plot about eastern European prostitutes.
"Fame Takes a Holiday," a cabaret act wrapped in a gossamer plot about a cabaret act, doesn't add much to the theatrical tradition of backstage comedy.
"The Calling," a prospective ABC television drama, has a pious plot about a seminarian engaged in a personal search for God.
When "Footloose" originally came out in 1984, it was a dance movie with a flimsy plot about a town that bans public dancing and the young rebels that see a cause to resist.
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