It is Christmas Eve in Bear Country, and the Bear family is busy getting out all of their Christmas tree decorations, with the most notable decoration being an excessively glittering eighteen-pointed star, and now the only thing they need is the tree. As Papa and the cubs get ready to go out and get one, Mama instructs them to go to Grizzly Gus's tree lot and buy a tree from him, and that they need to return quickly, since there is likely a snowstorm tonight. Papa, however, foolishly believes there is no chance of a snowstorm, and he also refuses to buy a tree for Gus's lot, instead insisting on going out into the mountains to cut down a tree. Accompanied by the cubs, Papa vows that he will find the perfect tree even if it takes him longer than it should (in spite of Brother and Sister poi