A Heavenly Christmas

Eve Morgan is a high-powered, ruthless financial analyst in Chicago whose only goal is to beat her rival, Carter, for a partnership at her firm. She is so obsessed with work that she cancels Christmas plans with her brother and nephews for the third year in a row. While walking on an icy sidewalk and making a cold call, Eve slips and hits her head, falling into a coma that she initially perceives as death. She wakes up in a white, ethereal version of Chicago and meets Pearl, a guardian angel who informs Eve that she has been selected as a Christmas angel-in-training. Pearl explains that Eve must return to Earth to answer a specific prayer before Christmas. Eve is assigned to Max Wingford, a man she briefly argued with in a taxi just before her accident. Max is a former musician who gave up his career after his sister and singing partner died in a car crash; he now runs a diner and cares for his niece, Lauren. Lauren's grandparents are threatening to take her to Florida, believing Max's lifestyle is too unstable. Although angels are supposed to remain invisible and not form attachments, Eve becomes visible to Max and Lauren, eventually falling in love with Max. She uses her financial expertise and heavenly influence to secure Max an audition at the Palace and convinces him to fight for Lauren's custody. Just as they share a romantic connection, Pearl reveals that Eve's physical body is actually in a coma and she has the choice to return to life, though Max and Lauren will lose all memory of her angelic intervention. Eve wakes up in the hospital, transformed by her experience. She repairs her relationship with her brother, gives her partnership lead to Carter, and seeks out Max and Lauren in the real world. Attending Max's Christmas Eve concert, she finds that while they don't remember her, they feel an immediate, 'familiar' connection, and the film ends with the promise of a new, grounded romance.