Joe and Jessica Brady live separately in New York, but their kids Dylan and Zoey are determined to reunite the family. Author Joe is prepared to miss out on a first-ever Californian publication opportunity to spend Christmas with the kids, but Jessica has already agreed to accompany her PR-firm boss Teddy to bid for a municipal campaign in Palm Springs. The kids pose and manipulate to make sure both parents end up in the same hotel there. Joe comes to share their suspicion that Teddy is after Jessica and resolves to win her back, and the kids turn on the sabotage to counter daddy dear's rich rival.
—KGF Vissers