Tom Lane is the star columnist for the media conglomerate owned San Francisco Sun newspaper. The company is thinking about increasing Tom's exposure by producing a new television show around him. Liz Madison is the advice columnist for the little read community newspaper, the Marin County Voice, which is a throwback to gentler times. Besides their journalistic occupations, one other similar aspect between Tom and Liz is that they are both currently single, with their friends and family doing whatever they can to find that special someone for their personal life. On November 2, the staff at the Voice learn that the Sun ownership has bought their newspaper, with the probable goal of folding it into the operations of the Sun. If this move does happen, the staff at the Voice will lose their jobs. To fight back, Liz decides to change her column to an editorial espousing the meaning of Christmas and the newspaper to the community...
Gay detective Donald Strachey is commissioned to protect gay activist John Rutka, who is known for "outing" prominent citizens. Strachey abandons bodyguard duty when he feels that Rutka is staging the threats against himself. When Rutka turns up dead, Strachey is faced with an extensive list of enemies all with enough motive to kill.
After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart finds relief from heartache and a renewed sense of purpose when he steps in as a father figure to Niki and welcomes the two women into his life. But when Wanda becomes romantically involved with her drug dealer, Silas, it may endanger Niki and threaten to destroy the makeshift family.
It has been nine years since Bancroft's character shot Brown's son. She goes to the prison to vent her rage at him over what he did, and discovers he's not the monster she thought he was.
Paul and Kathy Plunk buy a small motel in a lonesome mountain region in Oregon. Their newfound tranquility is broken by a pair of guests who turn out to be wanted criminals on run from the police. They need money, so they assault the Plunks, force them to withdraw all their money from the bank. But the nightmare just begins as they take the Plunks and their baby with them as hostages.
진(마이클 우즈)과 카렌(페이 그랜트) 부부는 둘다 명성있는 변호사이고 재산도 있는 부러울것 없는 커플이다. 그러나 아이가 없어 고아원에서 여자아이를 입양한다. 영세식을 진행할때 여자아이는 악을 쓰면서 울고 그 이후 영세 신부가 의문의 죽음을 맞고 수녀들도 이상한 일이 발생한다. 성장하여 유치원에 간 아이,델리아는 자기를 괴롭히던 남자애를 잔인하게 혼내주고 항의하던 그애 아버지는 차사고로 죽는다. 한편 진은 정치가로 출세가도를 걷는다. 그러던 중 카렌은 아들을 낳는다. 계속되는 델리아의 기이한 행동으로 생부모에 대해 사립탐정에게 조사를 의뢰한다. 수녀원에서부터 추적을 시작한 탐정은 펠리시티가 뱀 속을 걸으며 설교하는 곳에 나타나 델리아라고 쓴 쪽지를 보이니, 그는 곧 뱀에 물려 죽는다. 한편 탐정은 조사해서 얻은 증거를 카렌에게 우송하고 나서 의문의 죽음을 당한다. 그리고 우송된 증거를 가지고 의사에게 달려가 델리아의 정체, 그리고 안티 크리스티의 지지 세력, 그리고 이들이 남편을 자신들의 계획 수행의 도구로 이용하고 있는 것 등을 알게 되는데...
