Christmas Eve at New York, and the writer, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the overall wellbeing of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She matches with his guest and feels sorry for another patient. Meanwhile, the her engagement breaks with her Mike due to his own jealousy that is disgusting, but penalizing him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve at a medical facility, if he had been a teen ager, where he spent the finest Christmas of his life. The lives of a number of these characters cross with the others along the evening .