Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and German musician, gets straight A's except for gym.When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a fellow astronomy buff who studies in Luxembourg, patronizing the basketball tournament hosted there by a European school, she wants to join her school's girls' team. So she wants Max Minsky, son of the divorced Bavarian manager of the music café where her dad plays, to coach her in exchange for the money his mother pays for supposedly tutoring him academically. In fact. she neglects Hebrew class and preparations for her "Bat Mitzvah" (synagogue initiation) with which her mother is obsessed.