Abandoned at Christmas-Time

Rebecca Fillmore is a hard-workingsingle mother who must juggle trying to pay the rentand raise a youngfive-year-old daughternamed Carolinein the year 2012that she had during a night of hard love-making with a fellow college co-ed named Thomas McGloverwho ends up abandoning their relationship.Rebecca is then left with a dilemma as Christmas approachesand she gets so behind on her rent that her landlord threatens to throw her and her daughter out in the streetand she ends up deciding to abandon Caroline into the care of a middle-aged police detective named Paul Dablonskiwho also has to decide whether to leave this poorinnocentfrightenedlittle girl in the care of Child Protective Serviceswho will put her into the systemduring the holidaysor will he take her in as he tries to find her mother?