A Madea Christmas begins with Madea accompanying her niece, Eileen, to pay a surprise visit to Eileen's daughter, Lacy, who has mysteriously informed her that she's not coming home for the holidays. Lacy lives on a farm in a small town called Buck Tussel, and she's still avoiding telling her judgemental mother that she's gotten married to Connor, a white boy she met in college, for fear of disappointing her. So when Eileen and Madea arrive at the farm, Lacy panics and claims Connor is just a farmhand, and it only gets more difficult to sustain when Connor's Southern hillbilly parents arrive for a holiday visit of their own.