For a 13-year-old, Nelly has little time for superficial girl talk. Her only friends are her books because she wants to be an astronomer when she grows up. Her love of the stars is her connection to her heartthrob, the sweet 16-year-old prince of Luxembourg, Edouard.
When her school’s girls basketball team gets invited to compete in Luxembourg, under the patronage of the Prince, her direction is clear - she has to get on the team! However Nelly is a total zero when it comes to sports and needs all the help she can get. Thank
goodness for the kid next door, Max Minsky who is ready to make a deal: he will teach her basketball if she does his homework for him. Max may be a genius with a ball, but when it comes to school he is a total loser. But as Nelly practices daily on the court, she is letting her Hebrew studies slip and, much to the dismay of her mother, Lucy this could spell big trouble for her upcoming Bat Mitzvah. Nelly is desperately trying to juggle her family, school and sports but in the end she has to decide for herself what’s truly important...