Two friends decide to recreate the Santa Claus legend on Mars—with a few twists.

An older woman who never married is preparing for Christmas when a young boy knocks on her door to sell her a wreath.

In a Priory community by a yellow lake, a young man works for his mother's acquaintance to build the basement of her beach house. He is pushed to complete the project before the community summer solstice celebration, though the celebration turns out to be a rather cheerless, mundane success without necessitating the finished basement anyway.

Billions of years in the future, most lifeforms have vanished from the universe. Santa Claus must fight to keep Christmas—and all lifeforms—alive.

A child observes their father’s strange obsession with dressing up the pole in their front yard as they grow up.