One Tyrolean winter, Jem Russell and Andreas Monier both find the women of their dreams.  Main characters - Jem Russell, Andreas Monier, Madge Bettany, Marie Pfeifen.

Not even the Blitz can stop a special visitor from Lapland from making it to the Round House on Christmas Eve.

Karen is blissfully happy in her new life, but her successor at the Chalet School isn't happy at all with the way that the domestic staff are treated either there or at Freudesheim, and is determined to bring about change by whatever means are necessary.

Daisy Rosomon was once an award-winning doctor, but now she's a housewife - is she really happy with her life or is it time for change?  Her cousin David Russell's expected to succeed his father as head of the San, but is it really what he wants?  Meanwhile, Gretchen Monier is busy with her career, but does she want something else from life as well? 

David and Gretchen, expecting their first child, spend their first Christmas together as a married couple.

Over a quarter of a century has passed since the events of that day in Spartz precipitated the Chalet School's departure from Tyrol, but, as Innsbruck prepares to host the 1964 Winter Olympics, the events of all those years before are still looming large in many people's lives.