A man who runs a Christmas tree business alienates his teenage son, who runs away while he is making deliveries in New York. A museum employee helps him get a job, but she faces a difficult choice when the boy's repentant father comes looking for him the following Christmas. Drama, starring Anne Heche and Tate Donovan.

Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.