Джейкоб Черчер is an author of the best sellers. Already almost twenty years he was not at home - from the same pores as a mother drove out him, when it was him only sixteen. And a few days prior to Christmas a ring is heard : a mother died and left a house to him. To find the quiet of the mind, Джейкоб goes back into a place, where grew.But appears, this house keeps sad remembrances not only. A mother Джейкоба at the years became real барахольщицей, and among things a man finds out the diary of some Noel. Who she? What did forget in this house?And here Rachel appears on a threshold. A girl searches the biological mother that gave her on adopting.In search of answers for the questions of Джейкоб and Rachel begin the searches of Noel. They do not know whether will find her, but in their life gradually other important things appear: mercy and chance on love.