TV-G. Leland Jeppson's hopes of giving his family a special Christmas are dashed as a blizzard blows in and the train bearing his family's gifts is nowhere in sight. When Jeppson's' packages unexpectedly arrive at the post office in the not-so-nearby town half-blinded postman George Schow is hesitant to brave the storm, but his son, Sidney, will stop at nothing to bring Christmas to the Jeppsons' and ask their daughter, Ellen, to the New Year's Eve dance.