In Detroit, David Marino and Leslie Libby have lost their way in life, especially sad during this, the Christmas season. David's current life in looking after his wheelchair-bound widowed father Robert Marino and a career as a postman started with a fateful event fifteen years ago. Leslie owns and operates the Penny Lane Foster Home, which she inherited from her parents following their passing. With six foster children under her care, Leslie guides them with love and a firm hand. But she is on the verge of losing everything in needing to make $50,000 worth of repairs to the house in two days on Christmas Eve, the occupancy certificate to be revoked otherwise on order of the building inspector, Gerald Montgomery. David and Leslie's life paths cross when David becomes the home's new postman, he who plays a game of ball hockey with the kids in the midst of his deliveries every day. While she has vowed never to split up brother and sister Wendell and Sam, Leslie is placed between a rock and hard place when privileged newlyweds Milan and Charles Chatsworth, who want to adopt only Sam, dangle a $50,000 check in front of her to arrange that adoption, all six of the children who she would lose regardless in being unable to finance the repairs. Wendell and Sam have their own ideas of how not to be separated, they believing the best way being to make their way to Santa himself to ensure he gets their Christmas wish letters. What none of them realize is that their combined thoughts are enough to set into motion the powers of the Christmas spirit, albeit on a road with many bumps and curves.
—Huggo