
The merchant marine visits his estranged brother in an English town. Rebuffed by the brother's wife, he hooks up with a local mother and daughter. Juggling both women proves too much when they start arriving together.

A mean and miserly proprietor of a counting house in 1840's London is taken by ghosts to Christmas scenes of his youth, contemporary ones involving his family and employee, and lastly, a possible future holiday where he might be d...