Maya Greyson (Kalilah Harris) is an active liberal progressive law student, and she goes home for Christmas and takes her boyfriend Trent (Karson Kern) with her to meet her family for the first time.
Trent
is head-over-heels in love with Maya, but his arrival is a shock to Maya's
family, because he is white, and the most shocked of all of them is her mom
Renee (Robinne Lee).
Which
didn’t bode well considering his plans to give Maya an engagement ring on
Christmas Day.
She would often
take late night drives to try to induce tiredness and one night she
accidentally hits Billy Wilson (Dave Annable), a bartender who also suffers
from insomnia.
After insisting on
driving him to the hospital, but they both fall asleep in the hospital parking
lot outside, they both fall asleep in the car.
Feeling refreshed
after a sound sleep, they strike up a deal to sleep together again which works
every time, but things become more complicated when they develop feelings for
one another.
Lizzie Hinnel (Odette Annable) is preparing to marry Josh Wright (Charles Michael Davis) on New Years Eve, but the preparations are complicated by her micromanaging mother-in-law to be (Sheryl Lee Ralph) and more significantly her insomnia.
She
would often take late night drives to try to induce tiredness and one night she
accidentally hits Billy Wilson (Dave Annable), a bartender who also suffers
from insomnia.
After
insisting on driving him to the hospital, but they both fall asleep in the
hospital parking lot outside, they both fall asleep in the car.
Feeling
refreshed after a sound sleep, they strike up a deal to sleep together again
which works every time, but things become more complicated when they develop
feelings for one another.
Olivia Anderson (Lea Michele) and Jeff Williams (Charles Michael Davis) first met when they were six years old at a resort hotel in Hawaii where their families were staying for Christmas and both families returned every Christmas until they reached their teens when they shared their first kiss.
The
following year however the Williams family didn’t appear as Jeff's mother had died
and although Olivia repeatedly called and left voice mails, but she got no response,
and they stopped going after that.
Olivia's
family kept up the Christmas-in-Hawaii tradition though and then one year out
of the blue when they were grownups, Jeff and his father arrived at the resort
having decided to revive the tradition and its clear that the spark is still
there.
Unfortunately
Jeff isn’t free.
The
following year roles were reversed, and it was Olivia who wasn’t free, but the
heart wants what the heart wants so what will this Christmas bring?
Journalist Campbell Wallace (Jaicy Elliot) was raised in Dallas by her mother and stepfather, Sarah and Gary Wallace (Katie Hughey and Gralen Bryant Banks) and she took her stepfather’s surname and as her biological father Everett Bergeron (Bruce Campbell), abandoned the family when she was a child and resolved never to see him again.
However
one day out of the blue she is contacted by his current wife Jennifer (Moira
Kelly) who invites her to Sorrento, Louisiana where her father had turned his
life around and had been chosen to be that years Père Noel.
She
agrees after discovering that she had two half-sisters but only on the basis
that she meets him without revealing her identity.
As
she spends time with the Bergeron’s she begins to fall in love with them as a
family, and with Jackson Shepard (Ryan Rottman) the town archivist, who
encourages her to tell her father who she is, but she is afraid that he might
reject her a second time.
Journalist Campbell Wallace (Jaicy Elliot) was raised in Dallas by her mother and stepfather, Sarah and Gary Wallace (Katie Hughey and Gralen Bryant Banks) and she took her stepfather’s surname and as her biological father Everett Bergeron (Bruce Campbell), abandoned the family when she was a child and resolved never to see him again.
However
one day out of the blue she is contacted by his current wife Jennifer (Moira
Kelly) who invites her to Sorrento, Louisiana where her father had turned his
life around and had been chosen to be that years Père Noel.
She
agrees after discovering that she had two half-sisters but only on the basis
that she meets him without revealing her identity.
As
she spends time with the Bergeron’s she begins to fall in love with them as a
family, and with Jackson Shepard (Ryan Rottman) the town archivist, who
encourages her to tell her father who she is, but she is afraid that he might
reject her a second time.
Social Media Influencer Mona (Mishael Morgan) returns to her hometown of Milton to help with her family's Christmas Carnival and reconnects with her high school sweetheart Fletcher (Jaime M. Callica) but also a magazine photojournalist Dez (Ronnie Rowe) is in town, and staying in her mum’s guest room, to do a piece on the carnival for the Christmas Eve edition.
So
which one of them will win her heart?
