Plot Synopsis

Anna, an aspiring artist, is currently renting an apartment in her sister's basement and going from gallery to gallery trying to get noticed. With the holidays fast approaching and no other opportunities on the horizon, she decides to put her talent for gift-giving to good use and goes into business as a personal shopper. Her first client is Marc, a handsome advertising executive who is severely overworked. In fact, he's on the verge of losing a major client unless he can come up with the perfect campaign for next Christmas. This has left him with little time to do any Christmas shopping, so he hires Anna to do it for him. When Anna finds a surprisingly insightful gift for an old school friend, he realizes she has a special talent and recruits her to help him with all of his shopping. When he needs to find the perfect corporate gift for his staff, he invites her to the company Christmas party. When it comes to finding gifts for his family, he invites her to go ice-skating with his sister, and later, to have dinner at his parents' house. Still, stuck without a winning idea for his campaign, Marc becomes inspired by Anna's artwork. Without her permission, he takes one of her pieces and builds the campaign around it. He believes he's doing her a favor, but she views it as a betrayal. The two go their separate ways. As Christmas day arrives, Anna and Marc visit their respective families...but despite all the holiday spirit and joy, they each realize that something is missing. Anna accepts that Marc really was just trying to help her career, and Marc realizes that Anna knows and understands him better than anyone else. They eventually realize they've each found the best Christmas gift of all...love.