The plot is just what happens in the story. You can't have plot going on outside of a story, no.
Business Plot happened in 1933.
A. B. plot happened in 1824.
Bojinka plot happened in 1995.
The Plot - video game - happened in 1988.
A plot is what happens in a story. Creating a plot is what you do when you think up what's going to happen.
The series of events that happen in a literary work is called the "plot." Another common name for the plot is the "storyline."
Singapore embassies attack plot happened in 2001.
Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot happened in 1661.
Army General Staff Plot happened in 1948.
Paris embassy attack plot happened in 2001.
Hudson River bomb plot happened in 2006.
Wood Green ricin plot happened in 2003.