Madeline Kloppleman and Kim-Jack Donaldson are a couple in their mid-twenties. She's white, Jewish, privileged, and ready to marry, but only if the ceremony is in Antarctica on New Year's Eve. He's a black, inner city, high school science teacher, trying to keep his students alive until graduation. Madeline is singing her way toward a recording contract. Kim-Jack is about to invent the perfect pizza box. When one of his students is arrested on Christmas Eve, hours before they're scheduled to depart for the frigid nuptials, he's assigned the task of legal guardian, but the student has to be with him around the clock...even at a wedding at the South Pole.