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A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.
A man and a woman both frantically try to catch the last post, but could be connected beyond the outer envelopes.