Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol written in 1842. A lowly office worker's new overcoat transforms his bleak and invisible existence. Unfortunately, this new lease of life is short-lived.

It’s Christmas and the charming city of York, home to Jules, 16, and her dad, David, is decked out ready for the festive season. In many ways, David and Jules’ relationship is no different from that of most fathers and their sixteen-year-old daughters. He struggles to understand her, she refuses to communicate with him. He wants to be involved in her life, she wants her own space. In one important respect, however, David and Jules share a profound bond: the death of Jules’ mum, and David’s wife, in a car crash two years before. With both struggling to cope with everyday life in the shadow of their loss, Jules, inspired by happy memories of her mum, decides to take matters into her own hands.

Charlie is a strange and troubled young insomniac barely holding onto his job. His boss, a gruff but oddly sentimental man, has given him more chances than he deserves. But when Charlie’s fixation on a stranger pulls him further from his responsibilities, the consequences are inevitable. As their uneasy relationship reaches its breaking point, Charlie must face the quiet fallout of his obsession.

Four university friends on the final push to adulthood take one last adventure through the bush in search of creating one last memory of youth.