A grumpy senior citizen dumped at a retirement home by his vacationing family finds love with a new acquaintance who hides a secret.

When Gerald Carmody is left at a seaside old-folks' hotel while his family goes skiing, he feels very grumpy and abandoned and is determined to have a rotten time. But things turn around when he meets the charming Katherine Palmer. But she's hiding something from Gerald, and their December romance may have to end sooner than either one wishes.—Kathy Li