When a down-and-out pianist is shot during a robbery, he gives up his craft and swears never to play again. When he is forced to take a job as a department store Santa, his life is turned upside down by an orphaned girl who demands a bicycle for Christmas.
A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.