This holiday season, like thousands of others, Tom Howell will be stressfully zipper-merging onto Highway 401, on his way to visit friends and family. Ah yes, the 401. The busiest highway in North America. A grey, 16-lane hellscape. And the confluence of the two things: hellscape, and the season of goodwill, holiday cheer, etc., is making him think — Can we learn to love our fellow drivers, rather than Grinch up our hearts and Scrooge up our fists as some halfwit flies past us in the right-hand lane? Beside him in the passenger seat (i.e. taking turns, not all at the same time) are a driving instructor, an OPP sergeant, a speed-limit opponent, and Tom's highway-averse wife. Their wildly varying takes on life and appropriate behaviour on the highway raise issues of loyalty, ethics, manners, and neurosis—plus a few tips on better driving—during the most wonderful time of the year.