A gay successful piano bar owner Ebenezer "Ben" Scrooge (David Pevsner) despises Christmas and other people; he also mistreats and underpays his employees.
Young Ben develops a relationship with Bill (Christopher Allen), whom he met at Fezziwig's club.
Then they transport to the house of one of Scrooge's overworked and underpaid employees Bob Cratchit (David Moretti), whose health care proposal for employees Scrooge refused, where Bob lives with his male partner and their adopted children, including an ill child Tiny Tim (Liam Jones).
Then the Ghost of Christmas Future (JoJo Baby) covered in a black robe transports him to a bleak future Christmas, where everyone is glad about his death, a gay center whose donation offer Scrooge refused earlier is financially struggling and close to shutting down, and his possessions are stolen and then sold to pawn shops.
Then Scrooge sobs and promises that he will change while he is transported back to his home on the present Christmas Day.
Some time later, Scrooge honors his deceased lover Bill, takes care of Fezziwig with a motorized wheelchair, is a dedicated uncle to Freda and Mary's baby, becomes Tiny Tim's father figure, and starts another relationship, illustrating his kept promise to the Spirits.
[5][6] Co-writer Richard Knight Jr. was inspired by watching a gay couple in a 2005 film The Family Stone for an idea of creating a gay-themed holiday film, which later evolved into adapting Dickens's A Christmas Carol and retelling it in a modern gay perspective.
The film also played other theatrical dates around the US in cities ranging from Seattle, San Francisco to Palm Springs.
"[1] Dennis Harvey of Variety considered it a "niche" intended for gay audience who "enjoys watered-down camp and syrupy empowerment messages, which are not to be confused with the good kinds of either."
[13] Mark Olsen of Los Angeles Times found the film "earnest, well-intentioned and not unpleasant, but seems almost entirely pre-programmed.
"[14] Countess Gregula of a blogging site ChicagoNow deemed the story "faithful to the Dickens classic, but with a gay-friendly twist.