When publicist, Elizabeth, finds herself unexpectedly caring for her niece for a few weeks, she struggles to balance it all and finds unforeseen support from her niece's kindergarten teacher, Jamie.

A top-tier Canadian virologist and his Chinese wife are suddenly arrested by military secret agents in Beijing. He is threatened with the task of stealing a sample of his own work from his former laboratory, and the situation rapidly turns worse when people begin to fall ill.

When a food critic with no culinary abilities of her own is tasked with preparing her family's first Christmas dinner since the passing of their beloved matriarch, she is forced to enlist the help of a local French food truck owner whom she nearly put out of business with a bad review.