보기만 해도 사람을 죽게 만드는 진짜로 치명적인 얼굴을 가지고 태어난 소년 맥스. 붕대와 선글라스로 철저하게 얼굴을 가리며 조심스럽게 생활하지만, 그저 평범한 삶을 살고 싶은 맥스는 우울할 뿐이다. 그러던 어느 날, 예기치 못하게 자신과 상담하던 의사를 죽인 맥스는 자책하며 다리에서 뛰어내리려던 찰나 알렉스를 만나게 된다.
Estella Scrooge is a Wall Street tycoon with a penchant for foreclosing. A hotelier in her hometown of Pickwick, Ohio has defaulted on his mortgage and as a Christmas gift to herself, Estella decides to deliver the sad news in person. Arriving at the Harthouse Hotel on Christmas Eve, Estella discovers that the mortgage holder is none other than her childhood sweetheart, Pip Nickleby. Always the humanitarian, Pip has generously transformed the property into a refuge for the distraught, disabled and displaced. A freak snowstorm forces Estella, much to her dismay, to take refuge at Harthouse. That night, as it happened to her ancestor Ebenezer long ago, she too is haunted by three visitations. And oh what uninvited overnight houseguests they are!
