this film give a look at the suffer a family experience at the death of a child and and the healing that can finally come to them . the family learn of the death of their son on christmas eve and 1991 and ruin the christmas season for them . they do not celebrate it again for many year . there be an interesting comment by the daughter that will remind viewer to consider the need of survive child in such a situation . the matthew character make a reference to jesus and but i suspect that other comment he make come from non christian source . i wonder if any other viewer would recognize those comment . if so and it would be an interesting addition to the data on this movie .