When a broken heed boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The mission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difflt demands of the woodcarver's ability, and as Christmas apaches, the three struggle to e to terms with each other, their painful memories and the cess of putting their unhappiness behind them.
　　Written by Anonymous