An ordinary family wakes up late on Christmas morning and forgets to open the presents under the tree. The family is formed by Holly, a poet that stopped writing, Eric, who always thinks of others before himself, and Tatiana, a fifteen-year-old going through a complicated adolescence, which makes any attempt at communication a mine field. The truth is that Tatiana arrived exactly thirteen years ago from a Russian orphanage and Holly is convinced that something evil followed her home. Lately, Tatianas gorgeous black eyes are not the same Holly knows, but what has made them change? Why does Holly feel something has gone terribly wrong?