Thomas Mullen isn’t just a precocious twelve-year-old child. He’s a kid who – like most kids – cherishes Christmas. Unlike most kids, though, according to his mother, Rose, lately he’s been uncharacteristically withdrawing from life. When Thomas and his family spend Christmas at his grandfather’s house, she reminds her dad of this fact. Add to that, when Rose discovers her dad’s neighbour, Mrs. Meriweather – a woman she knew and loved since childhood – is deathly ill, Christmas Eve suddenly seems ominously clouded. But when Thomas’s grandfather tells the boy a magical story about the Christmas Eve snowflake, could things take a dramatic turn for the better?