When Michael (Patrick Dempsey) receives an invitation from his girlfriend Gabriella to spend Christmas with her family in Quebec, he couldn't be happier - until he meets her crazy family! Seduced by her sisters, intimidated by her mother and mistaken by an eccentric grandmother for a long-dead husband, Michael struggles to make sense of this house-full of beautiful and baffling women. But as Gabriella's grandmother takes Michael into her confidence, revealing the secrets of her girlhood dreams, Michael finally begins to realize that there are some loves you will never understand - and definitely some girls you will never forget.