Leo (Romano) and Angela (Metcalf) Russo live a simple, blue-collar life in Queens, surrounded by the big personalities of their overbearing Italian-American family. When their lanky soft-spoken son 'Sticks' finds success on his high school basketball team and a chance at a life beyond what tradition expects, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

When Mia, a talented Boston department store window designer, travels to her family's Connecticut town to help her sister design the decor for its annual Snowflake Festival Christmas Eve dance, she finds herself at odds with--and later attracted to--the stubborn but kindly Adam, whose grandparents founded the beloved festival 60 years ago.

A big box store worker reinvents her life and her life-story and shows Madison Avenue what street smarts can do.