A bachelor detective purposely rents a remote cabin, fifty miles from nowhere, to escape the Christmas traditions of the Protestants and Catholics in Chicago. Being starchy Jewish, he holds a personal disgust for those belieiving in fairytale figures like St. Nicholas. A December blizzard occurs. To his dismay, he is imposed on by a group of stranded Christmas crazy Protestant travelers seeking shelter from severe, whiteout, weather conditions. A mystical event occurs, and a portal door opens. It does not lead to Moses, the Red Sea, Jerusalem, the Christian's manger, or Santa's Land of Elves. Detective Edmond Marsh finds himself confronting the living dead, as well as a Christmas Boogie Man.