Helene Joy

On a poor farm in 1860’s New Hampshire, family ties are tested when a wealthy woman pays an unexpected Thanksgiving visit to her estranged daughter.

In this innovative version of the world famous Christmas story, The Secret of the Nutcracker tells of 12 year-old Clara's magical journey on Christmas Eve to find her father in a World War II Prisoner of War camp. Along with her mother and her two brothers, they long for some word on him, which eventually comes from an unexpected source the mysterious and magical stranger Drosselmeyer...