Boston 1857, and novelist Charles Dickens is giving a reading of his famous story of one hallowed Christmas Eve. Where the distant and cold loaner Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the apparition of his seven-years deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Wrapped in the chains of his sins, Marley comes this night with a warning, telling Scrooge that he can avoid the fate of his heavier chains. That chance will come in the form of three ghosts, whose lessons they will teach Ebenezer about charity and kindness and remind him of the man he once was.