What if to bring a Christmas miracle to those you care about most, you had to commit a felony?

That's the quandary Jack La Falla finds himself in. Jack hasn't had an easy life or even a fair one. Yet the day that he became the superintendent of Building 649 in the Bronx, everything changed. He has an honest living, but, more important, he has a purpose.

That purpose is the people living in 649. As residents of low-income housing, they don't have the smoothest time of it. They struggle to make ends meet and to deal with the various blows that life throws at them. Yet Jack is...