Nicolas LeBlanc returns from World War I heartbroken that his father had died in the influenza epidemic while he was gone, and longing to hear his beloved Cajun spoken once more. But he finds it in danger of being banned from the schools–and the pretty new teacher is encouraging his siblings to speak English at his dinner table. 
Suzette Devereux is trying to make change easier on the families of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. She even tries to persuade Nicolas to help her for the children’s sake, but he thinks she’s helping to make his Cajun language become extinct. 
At odds with each other and fighting their attraction to one another, they work together to try to make Christmas something special for his family for his mother’s sake. When his aunts come to visit for for the same reasons, they sense a spark between the two, but neither is willing to admit their feelings. Will Nicolas and Suzette ever find their very own language of love?