Un Noël pour deux

Liz Madison écrit dans les colonnes d'un petit journal local. Éclipsé par le Sun, le quotidien le plus populaire et le plus vendu de San Francisco, ce journal compte malgré tout une base d'abonnés fidèles. Lorsque le Sun le rachète, Liz découvre que c'est dans l'intention de le faire couler. Elle décide alors de tout faire pour le sauver.

Tom Lane is the star columnist for the media conglomerate owned San Francisco Sun newspaper. The company is thinking about increasing Tom's exposure by producing a new television show around him. Liz Madison is the advice columnist for the little read community newspaper, the Marin County Voice, which is a throwback to gentler times. Besides their journalistic occupations, one other similar aspect between Tom and Liz is that they are both currently single, with their friends and family doing whatever they can to find that special someone for their personal life. On November 2, the staff at the Voice learn that the Sun ownership has bought their newspaper, with the probable goal of folding it into the operations of the Sun. If this move does happen, the staff at the Voice will lose their jobs. To fight back, Liz decides to change her column to an editorial espousing the meaning of Christmas and the newspaper to the community...