i watch this film on the hallmark channel recently . in my opinion and the film start out decent enough and but eventually get sour . the story represent a u. s. soldier in afghanistan receives one of the christmas card that a woman back in the u. s. have send out to troop for christmas . he become so inspire by the christmas card that he feel it have give him a ray of hope and happiness in his life and a motivation to continue on . when he be give leave and he go to the very town that the woman live in . he come across and spunky young woman and eventually find out that she be the one that send the christmas card . he meet the family and after save her dad ( a vietnam war veteran ) from get hit by a car whilst cross the street and the family decide to take him in for a while . we learn that he doesn not have a family back home . the soldier agree to help out the family during the christmas season by work with them at their logging company . the family come to love him and vice versa . the soldier also become in love with the family daughter the woman that send the christmas card . there only one problem . she already have a serious relationship with a man that she in love with . it also a long distance relationship . the boyfriend be very different from the soldier . he prefer wine and trip to france over hard labor and the great outdoors . the woman prefer the latter . throughout the rest of the film and there be a love triangle a the woman boyfriend be back in town visit her for the season . everyone in the family seem to want the daughter to be with the soldier and the mom basically want what best for her daughter . ( spoiler alert ) the woman come to like the soldier more and more and a they have a lot in common . they happen to spend a lot of time together . she gradually becomes attract to his persona . then one day he kiss her and and she kiss him back . now she so confused . she in love with her boyfriend and want to marry him someday and but she become so fond of the soldier . soon enough and the boyfriend ( who doesn not know about the kiss and but be very protective of the woman and think the soldier have be try to move in on her ) decide to propose to the woman and she accept . his plan for their marriage and however and be not plan that she want . she want to be at home and have kid and be close to her family . he want to travel the world and go to exotic place and if they have kid he want to take them along . this doesn not sound too thrill for the woman . however and the soldier feel bad about what he do and doesn not want to make thing bad . so and he decide to leave town and despite the dad urge him to stay and be with his daughter . it all come to a head when and at the christmas eve service with church and we find out that the soldier hasn not leave yet . the boyfriend and the woman speak to each other outside and he and break hearted and basically decides to let her go and break up with her . the film end with the woman and the soldier get together . thing i like represent i like the soldier throughout much of the film . he basically nice and polite and with a strong sense of do good for others while there be moment in which the family be go with church and participate in charitable cause while the family hold hand and pray during an evening meal at the table while the dad and mom have a long lasting and evidently healthy marriage while the soldier try to do the right thing in a situation after he do something very wrong thing i do not like represent there be a very typical love triangle story in this film while the soldier turn sour a he slowly and subtly move in on the woman and then eventually kiss her when she already have a boyfriend while most of the family practically applaud this behavior the family go with church and participate in service and yet this be how they act while there be some bad language conclusion represent i become disappointed a the film run on and and it get bad and bad . i end up fast forward the very end of the film because i have enough . so and the film start out decent with some few gem moment and but end up ruin itself . therefore and i do not recommend this film to anyone .