In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.

Eric Randall, a famous author who writes about how to stay a bachelor is forced to look after his niece and nephew over the holidays and with the help of his Christmas loving neighbor, April, he learns to find love and Christmas spirit.