Junior Bender, burglar extraordinaire, finds himself stuck inside the Edgerton Mall at Christmas. Edgerton isn't exactly the epicentre of holiday cheer. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem. The murderous Russian mobster who owns the place hires Junior - under threat - to solve the shoplifting problem. But Junior's surveillance operation doesn't go well: as Christmas Eve approaches, two people are dead and it's obvious that shoplifting is the least of the mall's problems.