[1] Part concert, part travel documentary and with a tincture of comedy and fantasy, this 58-minute television movie follows the American operatic mezzo-soprano Frederica "Flicka" von Stade, the Broadway singers Rex Smith and Melba Moore and the classical conductor and pianist Julius Rudel through a four day Christmas holiday in St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, a village on the shores of the Wolfgangsee in the Salzburg region of the Austrian Alps.

[1] The movie begins with von Stade arriving at the village's quayside on the ferry-boat Österreich (with the Christmas melodies "À Bethléem allons vite" and "On annonce une nouvelle").

[1] The next day, Christmas Eve, begins with von Stade going with the children to the town square where brass players high in the tower of the local church have summoned them ("Est ist ein Ros' entsprungen") for some folk dancing ("Joy to the world").

[1] Then, explaining the history of Santa Claus on the way, she walks with them and the rest of the villagers in a candlelit procession to church ("Chantons tous le plus haut") for Midnight Mass ("He shall feed His flock", "Alleluia"), before she takes them home again and puts them to bed with a lullaby ("Silent night").

The international carols newly arranged by Joseph Canteloube [who had died in 1957] prove particularly effective in Von Stade's smooth, silken singing and the touristy context.