An unlikely duo, Lieutenant Tom Royko of the Seattle Bomb Squad and renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Gillian Hayes, find themselves in a race against time to track down a disturbed bomber who is inexplicably causing Dr. Hayes' patients to explode.
Муж Кэролайн разводится с ней и женится на богатой женщине. Забрав старшего сына, он уезжает и больше не интересуется проблемами бывшей семьи. Безработная Кэролин берет младшего сына Тоби и отправляется в бесцельную поездку по Америке. Они останавливаются в нескольких городах, где Кэролин старается устроить их жизнь. И однажды судьба сводит ее с Дуайтом, приятным и вежливым человеком. Кэролин, в надежде на то, что он принесет стабильность в их жизнь и поможет поднять Тоби, выходит за него замуж. Но вопреки ее ожиданиям, в дом входит суровый и вспыльчивый человек. При новом «отце семейства», деспоте и тиране, их жизнь превращается в сплошной кошмар.
Diagnosed as having a brain tumor, seventeen-year-old Ryan is angrily resigned to the fact that he may not live to see another year. With time running out, he clings to two goals: publishing his journal and losing his virginity. But as Ryan finds fresh strength from his new friends' optimism and defiant refusal to surrender to cancer, his perspective changes.
Two brothers' lives are changed forever when they hit the road to a snowbound Alaskan village. Brother Ray and Pete had been feuding for years. So, when their ailing father asks them to drive a semitruck full of gifts and supplies from California to the isolated Alaskan village of Willow Creek, they agree ---- reluctantly. Along the way, they pick up trouble when they're joined by Jessie, who is Ray's estranged wife and Pete's ex-girlfriend. Then, a blizzard strands the truck deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles from help, with time running our fast, they realize only a miracle can save them. But, as they are about to be reminded, Christmas...is the season for miracles.
