Compassionate holiday romancer with Connie Sellecca as a divorced mother who takes young daughter Asia Vieira to her small South Carolina hometown in order to start a new life. Once there, Connie has trouble getting ready for Christmas as Randy Travis, her former boyfriend comes calling, and a runaway boy and social worker take up a lot of her and her daughter's attention. With Rue McClanahan, Don McManus. Based on Kathleen Creighton's "A Christmas Love.
The boy pushes his dog out the window from the second floor because when trying to run away from his foster family. You hear it whimper a lot and then you see it laying flat on the ground unable to get up, whining. But it doesn’t die.
The boy’s father left when he was young, and it comes up a couple times. When trying to find his parents, they automatically focus on where his dad is.
The male love interest kisses and falls in love with the mother protagonist despite continually going on dates with another woman.
He cancels a proposal to that woman to marry the protagonist at the very last minute.
The whole movie involves heavy religious themes, and whole scenes dedicated to inducting children into church. An old woman grabs them and forces them to attend, saying otherwise they’d end up in jail later in life.
Near the end of the movie, it’s revealed to the boy that his mother died a few months prior. He then reveals that the reason he ran away was because she was dying in a hospital and couldn’t retain custody.