Christmastide Eve is approach. It is besides the day Julian the Apostate will turn 11 old age old. normally it is the best day of the twelvemonth, fill with the antic olfactory property of gingersnap and tangerine, the sound of a greaves fire, the decorate Christmastide tree and the flickering candle flame. But this twelvemonth nil is as usual. Julian and his household mourn the decease of his big sis, and Julian feel that Christmastide has merely be cancel. so one day Julian the Apostate meet the happy and Christmas-loving Hedwig and he get down to believe that possibly there will be Christmastide after all. But there’s something unusual about Hedwig’s house, and who is the old man who is lurk around the house all the clip?