Jake wants nothing more than to spend his Christmas vacation with his girlfriend Abbey. So when Abbey volunteers for her church’s Christmas play, Jake is ready to skip Christmas this year until an unexpected turn of events lands him in a field outside Bethlehem on the night Jesus was born. While on his journey with the shepherds to find the promised Messiah, Jake discovers the true meaning of Christmas.

A 1997-ne'er-do-well-Gen-Xer, living in his parents' basement, is compelled by his father to get a job or get out. The sluggard's father answers a random classified for a nightshift warehouse worker, setting up an interview for his couch-potato offspring. To make his father happy, the son takes the interview and is hired the same day, only to find out after it's almost too late, that he now works in a warehouse-time-vortex where people unknowingly pay for their gravest flaws in a neverending shift.