Seventeen-year old Slobodinka Kiyruskin, or biologically Elanthra Dukakis, is a Greek high school senior adopted by conservative Russian parents who meets and develops a relationship with a kind and polite boy from her lunch table, Thomas Whittaby. Thomas also happened to be the class valedictorian with a nasty and impulsively sleazy secret; a foot fetish! This turns Slobodinka's parents off, then making it her duty to prove that he truly means well.