Night on Earth

Five stories in different parts of the world and independent from each other are told, the two items tying them all together being they all taking place at the exact same time covering different parts of a winter evening (those differences accounting for time zones), and they all encounters between a cabby and his/her fares. In Los Angeles, cabby Corky, a proverbial tough girl, has her life mapped out working toward being a mechanic, while her fare, elegant middle age Victoria, a casting agent, may see a different path for her in needing to cast a Corky-like part. In New York City, hipster YoYo is trying to get from Manhattan to home in Brooklyn, and the only cabby willing to pick him up is recent East German immigrant Helmut, the issues being not only that Helmut doesn't know his way around the city and doesn't know the basics about being a cabby, but that he doesn't know how to drive. What further affects their journey is what Helmut considers his true trade, and they seeing Angela, YoYo's foul-mouthed sister-in-law, literally walking the street when she should be home. In Paris, a cabby, after kicking out his last fares, fellow "Africans", for their belligerence, believes his next fare will be much less trouble in she being blind and thus someone who cannot give him any guff in not knowing what's going on in his cab. In Rome, Gino sees the deserted streets at 04:00 as his stream of consciousness playground, that stream which takes on a very specific tone when he picks up a priest. And in Helsinki, Mika and two of his fares have a heated discussion concerning the state of the third passed out fare, Aki, who they say has just had the worst day of his life, their story which is only topped by Mika's own tale of woe in return.