Night on Earth is a film which focuses on taxi drivers and their passengers in five different locales: Los Angeles, Helsinki, Paris, New York City, and Rome. In Los Angeles, the rich, powerful, beautiful and glamorous Victoria Snelling (Gena Rowlands) is fascinated by the “diamond in the rough” qualities of a young female cabdriver named Corky (Winona Ryder). In France a blind woman (Béatrice Dalle) taunts her African-born driver (Isaach De Bankolé). Helmut Grokenberger (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is an immigrant driver who needs a little help from his passenger Yo Yo (Giancarlo Esposito) to navigate the city of New York. The driver in Rome (Roberto Benigni) babbles on, not noticing the health issues of his priestly passenger (Paolo Bonacelli), while the cabbie in Helsinki (Mattie Pellonpaa) trades tales of misfortune with his fares.