 The primary message is that being different should never be a barrier to being friends.Just five days before Christmas, when Poofer the Elf tries to help his best friend Gusty the Elf, he gets lost and winds up in the home of the Smiths, a loving family, and meets their caroling neighbors as well.He and the Smiths journey to the North Pole in an effort to aid Gusty, who has grown unexceptionably clumsy.