Christmas in Paris, 2002

the long version

It's slightly more than a year after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. New Yorker Joseph Steiner is still sorting through his psychological wreckage in the aftermath of the attacks. Since he has just lost his job as a television exec, he and his wife decide to spend Christmas in Paris. Set against the backdrop of the looming war in Iraq, this is the story of a self-centered man forced to confront the fact that the rest of the world probably doesn't care about him as much as he cares about himself.