Edmund Filliput is a successful businessman, but he is living a dreary life on a dreary Christmas Eve. Then he meets a happy stranger who keeps Christmas in his heart year-round. Over a cup of coffee and a bowl of beef stew, the stranger offers to send three friends to Edmund who will show him the meaning of Christmas. Will the "friends" convince Edmund in time to salvage this Christmas and rescue his life?People who are grumpy at Christmastime are often chided with, "Oh, don't be such a Scrooge." But Mr. Scrooge was a curmudgeon no longer when Charles Dicken's immortal story concluded. This little tale endeavors to reclaim Mr. Scrooge not as he was before that fateful Christmas Eve - a silly old humbug - but as the good and generous man he was as he lived the rest of his days.