Brian McAfee, twenty eight, former staff sergeant in the New York National Guard, a veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq, sits in a lawn chair behind his house drinking Bourbon. He and his wife Barbara argue viciously over his not having "gotten over the war." Brian knows at that moment it is time to take his own life to end his pain, and set his family free. Brian drives to Speculator. He will visit a fallen comrade's grave before he kills himself. Barbara finds a note that Brian left. Instantly, she knows what he is about to do, and where he is going. She gets in her car and speeds after...

A young man survives in the wilderness with the aid of a recluse veteran while coping with the murder of his family. Orphaned fifteen year old Tucker Pierce and his grandparents camp for the night deep in an old growth forest. They camp across the river from a marijuana farm concealed in the woods. The drug dealers decide they must kill the intruders to protect the marijuana farm. Tucker escapes into the woods where he runs off a cliff and is knocked unconscious. The next day, Tucker is hunted by the killers. He is saved by the intercession of a strange man who scares off the killers. Now...

A group of strangers spend a magical, soul searching and healing Christmas Eve. And when dawn comes, they discover that beyond the night of shelter, warmth and food, they have received an even greater and uplifting gift from their host and his dog, and experienced the true meaning of having A Christmas Passage.