Housebound because of illness, Caroline (Maisie Williams) hasn’t been to school in months or had many visitors - until classmate Anthony (Zach Wyatt) bursts into her room uninvited, armed with waffle fries and a copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

After a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus holds up a bank, a child disillusioned with Christmas encounters a man in the woods who, also dressed as Santa, claims to have fallen out of his sleigh. The pair strike up a friendship and go on an adventure.

A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.