As the night continues, Chris and Lewis take Levy to a meeting for very old grown ups, while Marabeth, still high on her experience with Jason, enters back into the journal of her Aunt Pamela.
Nell's relationship with Charlie deepens and Adele begins life as an engaged woman, The kids settle down the night after prom and Fenn has doubts about his parental potential.
While Marabeth sorts through her feelings about Jason, and the strange night before, in Chicago, Lewis and Chris run into some trouble and adjust their plains for the evening...
As fear gives way to even deeper needs, the night takes a turn where Jim is plunged into a dream world and Kris and Marabeth Strauss encounter naked desire.
Nell goes on a date, Adele is unprepared to be prepared for a surprise, Project Will continues with dismal results, and Noah has a serious discussion about Tyra Banks.
Jim reaches out to Kris and is rebuffed. The Strauss Family tries to take comfort in each other, and Marabeth returns to the Book of Pamela Strauss to be more shocked than she was before.
On a grim Christmas night, Marabeth Strauss receives and opens the parcels found with her father's remains that promise to inform them of their haunted legacy.
After a brief, dark respite, Joyce and Marabeth return to Strauss House where evening festivites are interrupted by a knock at the door, and Marabeth receives terrible knowledge and a weighty gift.
Early on Christmas morning, Marabeth and Kris, in their separate spaces in Strauss hall, reflect on their pasts and their fears. Joyce is welcomed into the busom of a family isolated from most others by their secrets
On Midnight of Christmas Day, Joyce travels with her friend, Marabeth, back to experience the mild magic and mystery of Strauss House and know a little better the family that Marabeth herself has been extranged from.