My wife and I enjoy Hallmark movies, they are predictable with clean characters and clean story lines. This one is better than most of them. The end credits have many references to places in Connecticut, so it surely was actually filmed there.
Small town 30-something lady runs a small shop, which includes coffee from her own bean-roasting operation in the old family barn. She sends "care packages" to her brother stationed overseas. One 40-something, career sargent becomes the beneficiary of some of her goodies and they begin a pen pal type of letter writing habit.
As luck would have it he gets stationed to her area for his last weeks while he decides if he will re-enlist or not. Naturally they hit it off but an obstacle is his job offer to teach at a military school in Virginia, and she is attached to her home area.
Lots of other themes run through the story, most of them involving Christmas Holiday planning for the big yearly festival. The script is very well written and the actors are very authentic in their roles. This is, to us, one of the better Hallmark movies we have watched.
At home on DVD from our public library.
