Doctor Owen Hughes and his newlywed wife, Connie, have just taken over a small town medical clinic. However, their world is turned upside down when he is called to treat Winter, a terminally ill child at a home for special needs children. When he unexpectedly gets snowed in at the home on Christmas Eve, he passes the time telling Winter stories, but he soon learns that his stories are more real than expected, and they force him to confront the pain of his past.