Night on Earth

Five cities. Five taxicabs. One night. In Los Angeles, no-nonsense taxi driver Corky gets an engaging customer in the form of a Hollywood casting agent, while a Parisian cabbie must contend with some rowdy African diplomats. In Paris, a taxi driver from the Ivory Coast picks up a harsh, wounded blind girl. In Rome, a cabbie makes a lively confession to an ailing priest. And in Helsinki, on the edge of a cold winter dawn, it's a toss-up whether the passengers or the drivers have a more tragic story to tell.

Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors for this quintet of transitory tales of urban displacement and existential angst, all staged as encounters between cabbies and their fares.