The plot is the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
Explanation:
In a literary work, film or other narrative or story, the plot is the sequence of events, where each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect. The causal events of a plot can be thought of as a series of events linked by the connector "and so".
More than sixty percent of immigrants in the United States today have lived here for at least 15 years, and the large majority (76%) of immigrants have lawful status.