A retelling of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. /// A TV movie starring Cicely Tyson as "Ebenita Scrooge", the managing director of a loan company, and Katherine Helmond as her deceased business partner Maude Marley.
Two sisters receive an early Christmas gift, an inheritance that takes them on a luxury holiday vacation. They run into their childhood rival, who digs in on these sisters, testing their resolve as women and their bonds of sisterhood.
Two neighboring families in Florida, one black (headed by Diahann Carroll) and one white (headed by Helen Shaver), struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.