When three 16-year-old troublemakers are assigned work-study assignments over Christmas Break, they unknowingly moonlight for an elusive porch pirate who could ruin the holidays for an entire ski town.

SYNOPSIS:

It’s Christmas Break in a small ski town besieged by an elusive porch pirate stealing packages and ruining Christmas for everyone. Three troublemaking 16-year-olds become the prime suspects: LATISHA (a female African American), CAZ (a female of Middle Eastern descent), and BOGS (a recent male immigrant from Ukraine), who drives a white van similar to one associated with the thief. It doesn’t help that the three teens are on detention from school and assigned work-study assignments at a local B&B and Christmas tree lot. The Deputy Sheriff, MARIA SANTOS (30) has her eye on them.

The teens begin their work assignments at the B&B owned by BEN ABRAMS (30s). Because Ben’s water heater parts were stollen by the porch pirates, his B&B is closed for guests, leaving no work for the teens. His daughter EVA’s (8-10) Christmas present (a tablet computer) is also stolen, but the teens take the bad news in stride and hit the slopes before going to work at the Christmas tree lot for old GUS WATERS (80). They arrive shortly after a tree was stolen by a thief in a white van, but Gus’ poor eyesight left few details for the Deputy. Even kindly Gus becomes suspicious of the teens.

Bogs moonlights delivering food and meals in town so he can send money to his refugee parents in Poland. He was provided the van by his employer, known only as V, as long as he makes his deliveries and takes notes of any security cameras at the homes he visits. V says he also sells home security devices, so he needs the information. Meanwhile, V is tracking Bogs’ van with a GPS device, and Bogs has no idea he’s helping the porch pirate. And because Latisha and Caz help Bogs with his deliveries, they unwittingly become accomplices.

The porch pirates run amuck, especially on the night of the town’s Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony when everyone is at Gus’ tree lot. Bogs, Latisha, and Caz remain the prime suspects. Fearing Bogs would be deported if caught, the teens put together a plan. With a little help from Eva and Ben, they set a trap to catch the pirate and clear Bogs. They discover V’s hideout and spend all of Christmas Eve returning the stolen packages. Christmas morning, V discovers all his packages have gone missing and he goes after the teens with a vengeance. However, the teens are tracking V with their own GPS device, and they help the Deputy catch V as he tries to escape. Eva gets her tablet computer back, the Three Wise Kids are heroes, and Ben and the Deputy find love.

THE THREE WISE KIDS