A married and happy woman receives visit from someone who claims to be her husband’s mistress. It’s the end of paradise.

Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.

这是一个现代版的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》。两个家族都以开披萨餐馆为生，他们从很久以前就一直不和，如今又成了商业上的竞争对手，更是水火不容。不过两家的儿女却陷入了爱河，面对重重阻碍，最终两人还是有情人终成眷属。