Synopsis/Details
Leaves are falling when Suzie, a 10-year old angel-in-pigtails, and her mother Gretchen meet their new neighbors Sam and Sammy (12). Suzie struggles with a rare disease that left her with only one kidney, but she wants to be a normal kid and go outside to play.
The film is packed with Christmas holiday traditions, including cookie baking, caroling, sledding, decorating the tree and house, sending Christmas cards, etc.
The first kidney transplant doesn't take and Suzie is trapped in the hospital until a replacement can be found.
Suzie meets a doctor who had five organs transplanted as teenager and became a doctor to help others like herself. (Based on a true story.)
There are worse things than being in the children's cancer ward on Christmas day.
Story & Logistics
Story Type:
Rite of Passage
Story Situation:
Recovery of a lost one
Story Conclusion:
Happy
Linear Structure:
Linear
Moral Affections:
Innocence, Right, Virtue
Cast Size:
Many
Locations:
Few
Special Effects:
Blood, Weather Simulation
Characters
Lead Role Ages:
Female under 13
Hero Type:
Unfortunate
Villian Type:
Mother Nature
Stock Character Types:
Boy next door, Girl next door
Advanced
Subgenre:
Christmas, Family, Romance
Action Elements:
Physical Stunts, Vehicular Stunts
Equality & Diversity:
Disabled Protagonist, Female Protagonist
Life Topics:
Childhood, Death, Puberty
Drug Topics:
Legal Drugs
Time Period:
Contemporary times
Time of Year:
Christmas Day, Winter
Illness Topics:
Physical
Relationship Topics:
Child, Courtship, Emotions and feelings
