NICOLE SNYDER was raised in a devout Catholic family and aspires to be a nun. After her parents are killed in a car crash, she winds up in her uncle’s custody. She is appalled that her uncle, New York Jets superstar quarterback DON MADISON, and his girlfriend, famous fashion model PAMELA AUSTIN, are living in sin, don't go to church and don't take her to church or send her to Catholic school.

She is upset that their lifestyles leave them little time for her and that she actually is being raised by the unemployed wife of the Jets' equipment manager. She demands that they either put her in a good Catholic foster family or send her to Catholic school and that her uncle either marry his girlfriend or kick her out.

The girlfriend, who has been trying to get the football-obsessed quarterback to marry her, finds an unexpected ally in his niece and plays off that into leading him into a half-hearted proposal. She emphatically accepts his proposal and tells his niece that henceforth they are going to do a better job of raising her. The niece considers the outcome to be nothing short of divine intervention.