It's Christmas Eve in Russia and 10 year old Taishya finds herself staying with an old family friend, Ivan Braginski, due to her KGB parents being called out on a mission. Taishya is none the less excited about Christmas the following day and finds great difficulty in going to bed so Ivan, his sisters and a few other acquaintances take turns in telling her a Christmas Story which keeps getting interrupted by a certain obnoxious country.