Mel is a local politician from a political family. When a family scandal leaves her niece, Lennox, and nephew, Ryder, without their parents, Mel takes them in. Meanwhile, Joe is a former commodities trader left bankrupt after a Ponzi scheme who is searching for a job. When Mel finds it hard to handle an instant family and her own life, she hires Joe to become the family's male nanny, or "manny".