The Jacket


Tidge Mackiewicz, new patriarch of his family, received several orders from his dying father, Kid Scream. One order stated that Tidge should quit believing in Santa Claus and stop acting like every day was Christmas. Tidge should also abandon his belief that the Luftwaffe shot down Santa Claus on Christmas Eve in 1944 and Santa survived. Approaching fifty, Tidge still wears a scuffed and stained Army Air Corps flight jacket given to him as young boy by his late uncle, a Navy aviator and Korean War hero, who claimed it belonged to Santa Claus. His uncle also believed that the jacket possessed a special magic. It is "The Jacket" and the spirit of Christmas that brings eighteen family members to Tidge and his wife's magnificent log chalet located in Wisconsin's Northwoods on Lake Namakagon for the Christmas holidays. Tidge can now carry out his father's final order of unscrewing his screwed up family and much more.