Plot Synopsis

Melanie Welsh and Donovan Goodwin are creative executives at Farnsworth Advertising, one of the top agencies in Connecticut. Now the firm has a chance to win the lucrative Evergreen Cellular Mobile Christmas account, but Donovan, who Mr. Farnsworth selected to make the pitch, failed to impress the Evergreen executive. Given the chance to make one last pitch, Farnsworth decides to team up Donovan with Melanie, whose earnest and heartwarming campaign style would surely add the homespun appeal Evergreen wants. Christmas is definitely in Melanie's wheelhouse, especially when it comes to finding perfect presents. But when she draws Donovan's name for the Secret Santa gift exchange, she's totally at a loss. Discussing her dilemma with her sister Jude, who suggests that she find a secret way of asking Donovan what he likes, Melanie creates a separate Secret Santa email account to communicate with him. But her first message asking him to name some of his favorite things, receives only a terse reply, suggesting all he wants is a simple tie. Determined to infuse Donovan and the Evergreen Mobile pitch with the joy of Christmas, she keeps emailing him as Secret Santa and takes him to Stamford's North Pole Tree Farm, a holiday extravaganza filled with acres of Christmas spirit. She reminds him that Christmas is supposed to evoke cherished memories of times with loved ones. When he says he never had any moments like that, she begins to understand why he's so closed off, and she makes it her mission to give him a crash course in holiday cheer. Melanie soon has developed feelings for Donovan, and wonders what he'll think when he learns the true identity of his Secret Santa. But little does Melanie know that Donovan is her Secret Santa as well, and while she's been secretly finding out about him, he's been picking up clues about her. As the two finally nail the Evergreen campaign and truly enjoy working together, they also nail their Secret Santa gifts to one another, and find that perhaps they'll soon be creating Christmas memories of their own.