Bernie Raleigh is a failure at nearly everything he touches. Nobody notices a loser and after being kidnapped for ransom as a child Bernie has spent his adult life trying to avoid being noticed. That's impossible now that he's inherited his grandfather's enormous fortune. The inheritance comes complete with a mansion a lot of obligations and a very problematic housekeeper named Meda Amos. Beauty queen alien abductee crypto-Jew single mother—Meda is all those things and she may be the only person who can help Bernie survive his new and very public life.