The plot: After three prior flops, and a mountain of debt
threatening to swallow him whole, Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) is struggling
to come up with his latest novel. However, inspiration soon strikes and he
begins work on a story about ghosts, misers and the holiday of Christmas. As he
tries to navigate the hurdles in his own life, he begins to converse with the
characters he is creating to flesh out the story, in particular the character
who would go on to change Christmas as we know it forever: Ebenezer Scrooge
(Christopher Plummer).
