The Miller family discovers a mysterious gift outside their home on Christmas Eve. The gift contains a snow globe with a perfect reflection of their own town inside. When they shake it snow even begins to fall, whatever happens inside the snow globe happens to their town for real. Then buttons on the snow globe unleash terrible disasters on the town and the family must band together and find a way to destroy it, before it's too late.

Builder Robert is visiting his ailing wife in a nursing home and is having problems getting a taxi home due to an intense snow storm. One of the doctors, Katherine offers him a lift home however their car gets stuck and they have to spend the night in an empty cabin nearby. They talk and bond, but afterwards seem to have difficulty beginning a relationship.