Holly returns home for Christmas and is put to work as a Santa's elf at her family's store, where she meets a young Santa, Nick, and falls in love. When Nick disappears, in a Cinderella story reversal, Holly searches for him with her only clue, his misplaced black boot, and finally reunites with him at the Christmas Eve dance.
Lifetime needed a title for the movie and "Hot Christmas Tree Salesman Who Ends Up With Woman Who Probably Lost Weight and Ditched Her Old Friends" was too long.