sometimes the things that can change your life will cross your path in one instantand then in a fleeting moment theyre gone but if you open your eyes and watch carefully you will believerobert is a successful attorney who has everything in lifeand nothing at all focused on professional achievement and material rewards robert is on the brink of losing his marriage he has lost sight of his wife kate their two daughters and ultimately himself eight year old nathan has a beloved mother maggie whom he is losing to cancer but nathan and his family are building a simple yet full life and struggling to hold onto every moment they have together a chance meeting on christmas eve brings robert and nathan togetherhe is shopping for a family he hardly knows and nathan is shopping for a mother he is soon to lose in this one encounter their lives are forever altered as robert learns an important lesson sometimes the smallest things can make all the difference the christmas shoes is a universal story of the deeper meaning of serendipity a tale of our shared humanity and of how a power greater than ourselves can shape and even save our lives