An old man wakes before dawn, looks at a photograph of a couple with a young daughter, walks to the shed behind his house, and strains to lift a kettlebell he stored there long ago. Roused daily by his alarm clock, he returns again and again to the shed, exercising with the kettlebell while looking at a picture for inspiration. A neighbor, concerned by his unusual behavior, phones the man’s daughter, who arrives but receives no explanation for his kettlebell workout.
On Christmas, the old man, now nattily dressed, arrives at his daughter’s house. When his granddaughter appears, he presents her with a package in which she finds a gold star tree topper. While his daughter watches with tears in her eyes, the man lifts his granddaughter high in the air to place the star atop the Christmas tree.
