Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir and declines a job in Robert's firm. When Robert's mother passes away, he begins to reconsider things and his and Nathan's paths cross on Christmas Eve as Nathan tries to raise the money for the shoes and Robert tries to get a present for his daughter.

Starring:

Bill Carr, Brian Heighton, Brian Jamieson, David Christoffel, Dorian Harewood, Hugh Thompson, Jeremy Akerman, John Dunsworth, John Maclaren, Kathryn MacLellan, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Maria del Mar, Max Morrow, Rhonda McLean, Rob Lowe, Shirley Douglas

Genre:

Drama