Dash is a teenager living in New York City who despises Christmas. His father has gone out of town on Christmas vacation, along with many of his peers’ parents. On the night of December 17 at the Strand Bookstore, he comes across a notebook with a message written on the front: “Do you dare?”. He then follows a series of clues within the notebook to begin searching for the author’s identity, leaving it for her to write a reply. The next day, he finds the notebook in a Two Boots where his best friend Boomer works.Dash & Lily Season 1 Download
Boomer claims that he failed to catch the mystery girl on the restaurant’s security footage. The two ultimately follow the book’s instructions to try to take a hat from a mall Santa Claus actor. Although a security guard and an elf actor forcibly escort them out, Dash successfully gets away with the hat and finds the author’s name, Lily, sewed in front.Lily is a shy, 17-year-old teenager of mixed European and Japanese ancestry who has never experienced romantic love, in contrast to the rest of her family. Similar to Dash, her parents and grandfather have gone out of town on Christmas vacation. With encouragement and input from her older brother Langston, Lily plans to leave a notebook with cryptic clues for a potential romantic interest to read so that he might find her. After receiving Dash’s answer to her initial cryptic, she visits Boomer at the Two Boots and leaves the notebook for Dash to reply while warning Boomer not to tell Dash that he saw her. Dash then follows Lily’s instructions to steal a Santa Claus actor’s hat while Boomer distracts Jeff, an elf actor. The Santa Claus actor insults and threatens Dash before the boy takes his hat and flees, leading him and Boomer to be forcibly escorted from the mall. Later that evening, Lily thanks her uncle Sal, who turns out to be the Santa Claus actor, for his help in her plan.