Stupid crooks hold the only copy of a youth's movie for ransom while his father's away in Africa staging a wrestling-based coup.

An 11-year-old phenom wrestler with an undefeated record, Kace Gabriel gives up the sport to write and direct a movie. He believes that if the film makes his best friend Charlie laugh on Christmas Day, it will awake the boy from a coma. Kace's dad Ajax Gabriel, an Olympian wrestler with a mysterious side career, supports his son's wish, cautioning that the friend may never come out of his slumber. A week before Christmas, the movie is produced, starring Ajax and a zany cast of characters, ready to make everybody laugh. Ajax departs to Africa, where he headlines The Christmas Coup in the Congo, a wrestling tournament that has him scheduled to return on Christmas, just in time for the movie presentation to Charlie. But instead of everything going as planned, disgruntled bumbling actors steal the sole hard-drive containing the movie, and The Christmas Coup in the Congo turns out to be a real coup with the overthrow of the country's communist dictator--and Ajax is right in the center of it all. Unable to get in touch with him in the Congo, Kace and his mother go on a crazy cat-and-mouse chase trying to retrieve the movie hard-drive as it's held for ransom. What ensues is an inspirational, funny thrill ride, with twist after twist--and a climatic, unexpected ending that could only happen on Christmas Day.