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Long ago in Lapland, a boy named Nicholas tragically loses his parents. The villagers decide to take him into their care. Each family looks after him for a year. Every Christmas he is taken in by a new family. In gratitude, before leaving, Nicholas gives the children farewell gifts — handmade toys. After a year of famine, the villagers are forced to send the boy off to be raised on a remote farm, where he has to live and work for a grumpy old carpenter...