Allison wants the Welltopia Christmas party at the Park home to show her fun side. In the meantime, Clark wants to give Connor the perfect gift, but he gets upstaged.
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.