A child sits on his mother's lap and asks about Christmas. And she tells him how it was long ago when a woman and a man found shelter in a stable in the darkness. In the middle of the night, the woman gave birth to her child there. All the stars shone in the sky - but the brightest and largest one shone over the stable where the newborn child lay in the manger. Astrid Lindgren's classic about the first Christmas - timeless and moving.