Matthew and Son

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.