Father Christmas is persuaded by his business-minded son to retire and move to Herne Bay for a year's holiday, little knowing the plans his son has in store for modernizing Christmas!
In a brasserie just off the Boulevard St-Germain, a distinguished author is entranced as he watches the motions of a young woman folding a restaurant bill into a paper boat. On an impulse he proposes to her. She answers without hesitation: yes, she will marry him, but on her terms.
