A bird mourns its mother through the eyes of a child who has no one to mourn. Jeremy moves through a winter city checking tree after tree, each one a small failure, each step in the cold another reason to give up. The film doesn't pretend this search will end neatly or that Santa fixes what abandonment broke. It sits with the quiet devastation of loving something you've already lost, and asks if keeping looking anyway is enough.

Adapted from a children's picture book, this Christmas film centers on a bird that was abandoned and then raised by a tree. When the tree is cut down so people in the city can use it for their Christmas festivities, the bird sets out to find its adoptive mother. Jeremy, a poor orphan who hears the bird's story, joins the search, and together they check every tree being used around town. The long hunt through the cold wears Jeremy down, until Santa Claus appears, though whether it is truly him remains a question. The result is a drama with a fantasy touch set during the holiday season.