It's Christmas in Seattle and Gordon Trout (MARTIN LANDAU) has come to the end of his rope for the second time.Having rebuilt his life after a shady business partner ruined him, and overcoming an earlier suicide attempt, he has never regained his confidence or joy of living. Now his wife, Barbara, has gone off on a cruise to Acupulco. Unable to summon up the energy to join her, Gordon buys a gun at the mall to end it all. Life is just as desperate for Crystal (HEATHER McCOMB), Cam (SHAWN HATOSY), and Jody (ELIZABETH MOSS), three runaways living on the streets. A gang of teen thugs has firebombed the abondoned car they call home, and Crystal can never return to the foster family she was living with because she sliced her foster father with a razor. These unlikely parties collide in the mall parking lot when Jodi convinces Gordon to give them a ride home in his old, but pristine Cadillac. Gordon soon discovers these kids have no home and that he's in for the ride of his life....