An archival historian is hired to create a Christmas display at the Plaza Hotel and is paired with a handsome Christmas decorator to bring it to life.
When historian Jessica Cooper (Elizabeth Henstridge) is hired to create the Plaza's annual Christmas display, she finds more than facts, while teaming up with the handsome decorator, Nick Perelli (Ryan Paevey), to bring the display to life;—anonymous
It's the start of the Christmas season. Archivist/historian Jessica Cooper has been hired by officious Amanda Clark of the Plaza Hotel in New York City to research and put together a display of the history of Christmas at the hotel which opened in 1907. Jessica finds history comforting as she never had a sense of the future when she was growing up, making the thought of the future conversely scary. That's why she has no thought of what the future holds for her and her boyfriend of two years, clinical biology Ph.D. candidate Dennis Park despite they having plans to travel to Florida on Christmas Eve for her to meet his parents for the first time. Jessica contemplates quitting when she finds the research alone through the hotel's disorganized records could take a year in and of itself, with she only having three weeks to have the display installed. Helping her with the installation will be Nick Perrelli, who owns his own Christmas decorating business and who had been contracted by Amanda to handle all the Christmas decorations at the hotel this year. Unlike Jessica, Nick focuses on the future and doesn't dwell on the past, such as his last serious girlfriend Alicia breaking up with him. It isn't until she finds a "hook" for the display that Jessica believes she and Nick can get the display completed and installed by that three week deadline. In further research, Jessica discovers one "hole", something that will not be tolerated by Amanda regardless of the actual true history, that hole which, unknown, is kept as a secret by the hotel's long serving chief bellman, Reginald Brookwater. In working on this project, Jessica begins to understand the need to look to the future, she wondering, stemming from a comment by her best friend Cassidy, if Dennis is that future, or if a certain Christmas decorator, who has professed his feelings to her, is that future instead.—Huggo
Handsome, quiet Nick Perrelli enjoys his job as independent decorator, regularly hired in New York's prestigious Plaza hotel, making him the de facto assistant of Jessica Cooper, who has been hired by manager Amanda Clark as archivist/historian o research and put together a display of the history of Christmas at the hotel which opened in 1907. She nearly resigns, despairing about the daunting mass of unclassified material, but he helps her concentrating on the nearly annual collection of unique giant Christmas tree tops, and Nick introduces her to the main traditional artisan supplier firm, surprisingly linking the missing one to ever-present chief bellman Reginald Brookwater, while Nick and Jessica fall in love, side-tracking her posh, less romantic fiance of two years, clinical biology Ph.D. candidate Dennis Park.—KGF Vissers
