The two road-goer-downers in this film are Nova Scotia buddies Doug McGrath and Paul Bradley. Seeking a better life in Toronto, the boys land dead-end jobs at a soft-drink factory. They lose their jobs when one of them gets a girl pregnant. Despite the fact that the pair can't live with each other, it is equally obvious that they can't live without each other, and the film ends with the twosome heading down yet another road hoping to find happiness. Filmed on a reported budget of $75,000, the Award-winning Goin' Down the Road typifies the independent, improvisational spirit one so often found in Canadian films of the 1970s.