After “One Tyme” (Rodney Perry) learns he is on borrowed time he first thought is to head towards his family for the holidays, however he is never a welcome guest there, so he has his work cut out to persuade his sister-in-law Vanessa (Tiffany J. Curtis) to host a Christmas party on Thanksgiving so he can celebrate his favourite holiday one last time with their wacky extended family.
In her quaint hometown of White Deer, Ellie Hartman (Brooke D'Orsay) works for the Carlington Bakery, famous for making Christmas Kringles, but her real passion is crafting, and her Christmas wreaths are in great demand.
Unbeknown
to everyone at the bakery CEO Jack Carlingson (Jonathan Whittaker) is planning
to step down in the New Year and hand the reigns over to his son Nick (Daniel
Lissing).
However,
because of his obsession with modernization he has reservations, so he sends
Nick to White Deer in December to learn all aspects of working in a bakery,
including the production line that he is so keen to replace and to meet the
employees people face to face, because they are the ones destined to be laid
off if he got his way.
It
fell on Ellie as human resources manager to show him the ropes and teach Nick
how to make a Kringle, while also showing him that people make a business
successful, not machines.
He
is also introduced to the other employees as well as townspeople who work at
and use the food bank and begins to appreciate the human cost of mass layoffs.
During
the process Ellie and Nick fall for each other as he helps her to chase her
entrepreneurial dreams, and their other dreams come true at the same time.
Successful Pastry Chef Beth (Brittany Clough) is a fiercely independent woman is invited by her hunky dream boat of a boyfriend Max (Preston Vanderslice) to go to his family home for the holidays, and she agrees, but mainly because of a recipe.
She
soon regrets her decision because the moment they arrived he quickly reverted into a “momma's boy”, and Beth
finds herself locked in a tug-of-war for his affections with his overbearing smothering
mother.
It doesn’t matter if you think
You
have under achieved last year
But
its ok if your only achievement
Was
to get through the year
The tradition is, on New Years Eve, to open
The
door at midnight to let the old year out
This
year however I’m opening the door
And
every window to let every bit of it out
Widowed CEO John Williams (Ben Graham) is still honouring the memory of his wife five years after her death by spending Christmas at her favourite place, the Keestone Resort in Tennessee.
Its
at the resort where he meets genial Madelyn Grace (Candice Graham) who works
there with her friend Whisper Jacobs (Meggie Jenny).
While
Whisper forms a relationship with John’s assistant Liam Weaver (Bryan McClure)
Madelyn does the same with John and he must choose between another chance at
love or keeping his heart safely locked away.
A reworking of Charles Dickens well spun yarn of redemption.
This
retelling of the story in which Ebeneezer Scrooge (Everett Salter) a heartless
grasping bitter old miser is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his old
partner Jacob Marley (Nicc Spinball), who scares him with tales of hell and
warns him he will have further visitations to give him a long-overdue attitude
adjustment and show him the errors of his ways.
The
first visitor is the ghost of Christmas Past (Blake Sutton), the second visitor
is the ghost of Christmas Present (Michael Millican) and the Ghost of Christmas
Yet To Come is (Samuel Fulton).
Between
them they force him to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and as a
result he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man and discovers the true spirit
of Christmas.
