The stage is set for a ghostly encounter when Kaye's family runs off the road in a blizzard on Christmas Eve 2008, at the sight of a perfect pine tree chosen by young Lillian in 1938.
A boy, indulgent of his grandfather's story of being whisked away as a young shepherd by the angel Gabriel to visit the baby Jesus on the night of the infant's birth, decides to record the tale when he receives proof that it is true.
When Moosha gets stuck in the space meant for the Christmas tree, the cow family is sad until Dale, a baby calf, shows them how to make the best of the situation.
On the Nebraska prairie in 1880, eleven-year-old Emma finds a way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas while her mother, a midwife, delivers a baby on Christmas Eve.
After Farmer Tuttle is unable to give his wife a Christmas hat because he can not sell his Christmas trees, he receives a mysterious letter requesting his very finest tree.