Eloise loves the pre-Christmas bustle: decorating the Christmas tree, hanging garlands on the windows, drinking cocoa while watching her favorite films, choosing gifts. And she and her twin sister Kara always celebrated Christmas with their parents. But this year everything is going wrong... Cara has moved to London and is so caught up in her new job and her new boyfriend that she doesn't seem to be going home on the twenty-fifth of December, and Mum and Dad have suddenly decided to go on holiday at the seaside. Childhood passed, everyone moved away. Doesn't anyone really need a holiday feeling anymore? And it looks like this sweet neighbor, Jamie Darcy, is lonely too...