In South Woodbourne, Washington, widowed second grade schoolteacher Emily Spengler (Faith Ford) loves the Christmas holidays, as do all the townsfolk, and she is looking forward to spending the holiday with her grown up daughter, Heather (Emma Lahana), as usual.
However Heather, who
is at college in Boston, drops the bombshell a week before Christmas that she
is going to be too busy studying to make the long trip home to South
Woodbourne.
Emily calls her BFF
Faith Kerrigan (Gabrielle Miller) for sympathy after receiving the news and
asked her to come for Christmas instead but she is further disappointed when
divorcee Faith tells her she is too snowed under with work to make the trip
from San Francisco.
Also in Boston lives
an unsentimental novelist and English professor Charles Johnson (Tom Cavanagh),
who his desperate to break his writer's block and complete his latest novel
which is overdue at the publishers.
In addition to his
lack of sentimentality, along with his workaholic brother Ray (Gil Bellows), he
doesn’t celebrate the season.
Ray, as the owner of
his own lucrative business, is trying to decide if he should accept a very
generous offer for his company, and advises Charles to do a house swap for the
holiday suggesting that a change of scene might well help to unblock him.
And that is where the
story really starts.
Emily and Charles meet
on a house swapping website and agree to do a one week swap in the lead up to
Christmas.
However all does not
go well, Emily goes to Boston to surprise daughter Heather only to find on her
arrival she has secretly flown to Phoenix with her boyfriend Jason.
Charles meanwhile
finds the over decorated house and the over friendly townsfolk of South
Woodbourne somewhat over sweet.
But that turns out to
be the least of his problems when Emily's best friend, divorced corporate
events planner Faith Kerrigan, arrives in South Woodbourne from San Francisco
intent on keeping Emily company during the holidays in Heather's absence.
Due to circumstances
beyond her control Faith is forced to stay at the house with Charles for the
better part of the week.
At the same time Emily
sets off the silent burglar alarm in Charles apartment and brother Ray and the
Police walk in on her.
Obviously in true
Christmas tradition romance blooms in both Boston and South Woodbourne.
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