The Rankin siblings are grown and are saying goodbye to their annual tradition of spending Christmas at the family cabin. When surprise guests arrive to join the festivities, they are forced to rethink whom they call family. By Christmas morning, all the pieces fall into place.

SYNOPSIS:

The Rankin family has spent every Christmas in the cabin at the lake where their parents met and fell in love. Now the siblings are adults and their parents are gone, so they’ve decided to spend one last Christmas at the cabin together before it’s sold.

CAROLINE, the eldest, is too focused on her career and her love life to be nostalgic. BRUCE, the middle child, is too occupied with his wife, who is pregnant with their first child, to concern himself with much more. However, TIFFANY, the youngest, has a few plans of her own to keep up traditions and start some new ones.

When Caroline invites a date to the gathering, no one is too surprised. But when she asks him to bring his little brother as a blind date for Tiffany, she may have overstepped her bounds.Tiffany has taken the liberty of inviting LAYLA, the half sister no one talks about, and her young son, making the family cabin feel less than comfortable in more ways than one.

Regardless of the curveballs, Tiffany is unwavering with her holiday schedule of cookie baking, tree trimming, stocking hanging and even the special Rankin family tradition of putting together a puzzle, without the assistance of the picture on the box. Even the hint of an attraction to awkward, yet charming, HENRY does little to dissuade her from the traditions.

Bruce and his wife, MEG, seem to be taking everything in stride until they each realize they had assumed the other one would give up work to stay home and raise their children. Bruce’s bruised ego puts a damper on the spirit of the season, but not nearly as much as Caroline’s suspicions and jealousy of Layla.

Meanwhile, SARGE, Layla’s young son, is enjoying his first Christmas in the great outdoors and starting to feel at home with his new, albeit somewhat dramatic, family.He also gets a little afterlife assistance from the grandfather he never knew but who still loves assembling all sorts of puzzles.

As the Christmas Puzzle comes together, the pieces of their fractured emotions also fall into place, creating a stronger connection between siblings, and an extended family, that will continue to celebrate Christmas traditions, old and new.