As another Christmas approaches in the small Wisconsin town of Paradise, the local television news director, Lucy Collins, struggles to recapture the joy of Christmas after a traumatic event in her life just two years earlier. When the mysterious but attractive Joe McNamara arrives from Chicago to apply for the station's associate producer position everything changes for Lucy, her family, and their small town independent television station. But why has Joe really made the journey to Paradise? What are his intentions and why is he really there? The answers just might surprise you.