Xmas Eve at New York, and also the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs magic to improve the overall health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry and matches his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez violates her engagement with her Mike due to his jealousy that is suffocating, but penalizing him. A stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela stalks mike. The poor Jules arranges to pay Christmas Eve from the hospital, where he spent the Christmas of his life when he was a teen ager. The lives of several of those characters cross with the others along the evening .