Three oddball puppeteers - Freddie Douglas, Snowflake Jones and Herbie Pickle - flee the set of the stop-motion Christmas special they are working on to take their own voyage North. They aren't heading for Santa's Village, they are heading to Canada and unless they get there by Christmas Eve, Freddie's heading for boot camp.
A wild, Yuletide road trip through the turbulent sixties with puppets, police and peril that asks the question: Who's pulling your strings?