The story of Mr. Nicholas, a lonely old pensioner, begins the moment he decides to make children's dreams come true. As a temporary worker, he works at the post office, where letters addressed to St Nicholas have been piling up since the end of November. The post office workers put them in an old banana box and nobody notices them anymore. After all, who has time for such stupidity. It is only Nicholas Frost, in whose name the persons to whom the letters are addressed are associated, who thinks that this year he will make at least a few children in the house and on the street where he lives happy. And so he buys sweets and, with the help of a young student he has taken in at his place, starts delivering sweet parcels...

Television adaptation of F. Kárinthyho's story about how important it is to have a sense of home. The apricot jam symbolizes the home, family well-being, which the little boy Ferko, living with his parents in a Hungarian town of the 30's of the 20th century, desperately hopes for. A mother with an unfulfilled desire to become a famous pianist and a father with an even more distant dream to be a world-famous and wealthy writer to a son have no time or even a loving word. His loving companion is only Manci, who, however, leaves for misunderstanding with his lords. Ferko remains alone, disappointed and reluctant to accept the friendship of a new maid of Rózy. But he also has his great dream, and Róza will help him meet him.

The audition for the main girl character in the musical for youth attracts various adetepts.And so, on stage and backstage, girls of different types and characters meet, who otherwise might never have met.In the struggle to win the role, their negative but also positive character traits are manifested.There is a girl who is brought up by the street, a girl from a good family,who fulfils the ambitions of a failed mother, a girl loner, a pair of inseparable friends who quarrel for the first time in their lives...All this theatrical world is watched over by a very aspiring director and her assistant. Their private lives also influence the final decision.All of them have to reconsider their dreams of fame but also their real life values... to defend their own sense of values.