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An African American singer whose traumatic childhood has her rejecting Christmas will confront her Past, Present, and Future one Christmas Eve when she must decide whether to die inside her isolation - or learn to embrace the meaning of what it takes to live life.
SYNOPSIS:
(This is a Christmas Eve musical dramedy.)
Ebony Scroogins (Jennifer Hudson-type) has it all: fame, a music empire, and no one to answer to.
And she knows all too well how to keep the people she’s afraid to love at a distance:
There's Matthew, the son of her deceased twin sister Joy, and her only living relative. He wants to be a part of her life – she only wants to be left alone.
Bobbie, Ebony’s underpaid, overworked sweet-tempered assistant. Not only is she responsible for an ailing grandfather, but she also wants Ebony’s help in becoming a singer. However, Ebony’s focus is her own career – and she demands Bobbie does the same.
Then there’s Jack Wittner, Ebony’s agent, who wants to be more than that. Yet, Ebony suppresses her feelings for Jack because first, she never mixes business with pleasure, and second, she never EVER dates White men.
Last, there’s Timothy, a little boy she encounters outside her professional building. He’s selling ice because he wants to buy a special Christmas gift for his dying friend Calvin, who lives with him at the Children's Center. But instead of buying a bag, Ebony tells Timothy to take a hike.
Unbeknownst to Ebony, her tyrant's life will soon turn upside down that Christmas Eve, when after getting drunk, she falls and hits her head. Her unconscious state makes way for three entities: her deceased sister Joy who represents her Past, Timothy’s orphanage social worker named Meghan who represents her Present, and a terrifying hooded faceless Strange Man who represents her chilling morbid Future.
Christmas Past will force Ebony to relive the childhood mass church shooting by a White man that killed her parents on Christmas Eve. Christmas Present will show Ebony how her current life choices have far-reaching effects because of her detachment from the people in her life. And Christmas Future will force Ebony to visit the devastating outcome of her choosing to shut people out, along with showing her the gravesite of her final resting place.
She's given a second chance to redeem herself – another chance to change her life. But will she – or is it too late?