Bruce, a little blue spruce, has always wanted to make a family's holiday special by being a beautiful Christmas tree, but fears no one will ever want to have a blue tree.
A young fir tree hates feeling small and useless, but as winter falls and Christmas approaches a small boy and his family discover that the tree is the perfect size for something very special.
The Christmas tree of a poor peasant family leaves their cottage on Christmas Eve and goes into the forest in search of pretty things with which to decorate himself.