在这部惊惧圣诞犯罪/剧情片中,影片故事发生在导演的出生地——纽约。主人公是一对纽约夫妇，他们“制造小袋的海洛因就如面包师把面包放在烤炉里一样”，他们生活却和常人一样，到了圣诞节也去采购，给孩子准备礼物等等。但丈夫突然被警察逮捕，小家庭的一切被打破，妻子甚至只能用肉体来交换丈夫的生命。费拉拉再次对“生存权力”提出一些启示。
A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.
