The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year when Matt Norman, a teenage boy in the neighborhood, is hospitalized in desperate need of a heart transplant. As his parents Ann and Mike anxiously pray by his bedside, a donor is found, while in Detroit, a mother is in anguish at her own son’s bedside. When Matt's neighbors decide to honor him in the best way they know how, they just might help save his life.
Acting
Teri Polo's bedside desperation hits uncomfortably real.
Production
Those luminaries? Actual fire hazard commitment to the bit.
Director
Gary Yates
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Winnipeg pretending to be Michigan, because nothing says authentic Detroit like Canadian tax credits.
The parallel Detroit storyline mirrors real organ allocation geography—urban trauma centers supply suburban recipients, a tension the film quietly acknowledges but doesn't resolve.
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