Ghosts of Christmas Past

Ellie Sanders is a character artist for a games software company, a job she loves despite what she believes is her creative mother Paula Sanders' disapproval in she not living up to her potential. Despite it being her favorite time of year, this Christmas season is a difficult one as task upon task adds up. First, in her family's Secret Santa, she has drawn her mother, Ellie feeling pressured to get a gift up to Paula's standard. Second, she has a week to Christmas Eve to develop her first games pitch. And third, but arguably most importantly in her mind despite not fundamentally believing in such and not believing she had up to that time done anything wrong, she is told by a fortune teller that she has to make amends to all the potential boyfriends she's ghosted by the stroke of midnight Christmas morning or else risk never finding true love. Ellie, a habitual ghoster, had believed that ghosting was a more humane method of breaking up as opposed to telling the "hurtful" truth, she only doing so with men she had solely met online up to the point of the ghosting. Helping her with this final task is the software engineer assigned to her for the games pitch, Charlie Brenson, who she has always viewed as the office slacker. In dealing with the work and ghosting tasks, Ellie begins to see a different side of "overqualified" Charlie. With the ghosting, she having more than valid reasons to break up with some of those men, she has to come to terms with why she truly does ghost those men for who there was some potential. Adding one more person to the list, she feels she also has to make amends to the one who she stood up in an in-person meeting, the one with who she truly felt a connection, as she starts to fall for Charlie, he dealing with his own recent heartbreak in being stood up himself by the one he thought could have been the one.