The phrase "a plot about a" 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 presents a plot about a young girl who discovers her hidden powers in a magical world."
Alternatives: "a story concerning a" or "a narrative involving a".
Correa sandwiches this inside a plot about a loosely sketched, ill-fated scheme to steal arms for a man known only as Mr. Big.
This work, to Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, has a wisp of a plot about a young man's encounters with the woman of his dreams.
Previously he had shrugged off the infidelity as "something which all men do", but last year he opened up when launching a movie with a plot about a father whose busy work life means he neglects his daughter.
At first West said he was unsure about the story but director Lindsay Posner persuaded him that a plot about a sexually unresolved man in the throes of a midlife crisis would be timeless.
The Veterans Day episode of "Doc" on Nov. 11 pays homage to veterans of World War II and Vietnam and includes a plot about a firefighter who lived through the World Trade Center collapse and emerged with survivor's guilt.
Its success allowed Mr Chandor to do exactly what he wanted with "A Most Violent Year"—wrapping a plot about a business transaction inside a story about an immigrant's struggle to live the American Dream rather than what he describes as "getting funnelled towards the seventh 'X-Men' movie"."A Most Violent Year" has much of the gangster film about it.
This appealing novel sets itself a challenge: formulate a plot about formulating plots.
(David Chase satirized their bloodlust with a plot about "Cleaver," a mob horror movie with all of the whackings, none of the Freud).
It's not that the show is revelatory art — a plot about Gordon receiving a diagnosis of brain damage verges on bathos.
Created in 1939 for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo by Marc Platoff, the ballet had a plot about modern-day hikers discovering a ghost town.
This is familiar terrain for Fincher, who in "Zodiac" (2007) used a plot about the quest to find a killer as a device to tell the richer story of the toll that such a hunt can take on the hunters.
