Divorced real estate dealer Mike is the popular universal fixer and handyman in Cape Cod, but considers accepting a London job. He welcomes home for the holidays with her parents his high-school ex Samantha, a Boston-based freelance photographer who needs him as tour guide to find the perfect spots for original Christmas pictures, as her finalist entry for a competition to win a newspaper tenure. She planned the trip earlier, to attend her widower father lee's remarriage to Christmas super-fan Helen, also to Sam's taste. Getting to know each)other again and even better, Cupid' strikes, yet they deem a commitment incompatible with their career ambitions. After Lee, who asked Sam's advice whether he should sell the house now he's moving in with Helen, decides to put it in Sam's name, it's truth time as Mike is willing to stay.—KGF Vissers