After a depressing year of sadness, loneliness, and self-doubt,
successful civil engineer and former All-American basketball star
Elizabeth (Betsy) Curry returns home to Oakville, Ohio, for the
Christmas holidays a depressed and broken women.
Reeling from her bitter divorce from the handsome, charming, but
morally-bankrupt Tommy DeMalio, her college sweetheart and first
big love who left her after two years of what she thought was a
good marriage for a stripper he met at an office bachelor party for
her co-worker, Betsy feels lost and empty.
Not exactly anticipating the happy holiday with her family and their
multitude of joyful Christmas customs and long-time storybook-like
traditions, she knows she needs them in order to heal.
Once comfortable at home and feeling somewhat better about
herself, Tommy shows up and claims he wants a reconciliation,
throwing her back into the self-destructive cycle of doubt, hostility,
and suspision she is trying so hard to escape.
She discovers her father has set her up with his protégé at work,
the tall, handsome, athletic red-haired Patrick, who, try as hard as
she can, she can’t find a single thing she doesn’t like about him.
So, what’s the problem? Betsy feels it’s too soon for her to love
again. How can she love anyone again when she doesn’t like
herself or what she’s become since the break-up. Also, she fears
she will hurt the sweet, gentle Patrick.
Will the love, joy, and goodwill of the holiday season coupled with
the many long-time holiday customs and Curry family traditions
help Betsy to find herself again? Will she be strong enough to lift
herself out of her self-induced prison so that she can take another
chance on love ?
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