本片由五个发生在同一时间，不同国家地区的小故事组成，每个故事都描述了的士司机与乘客的一次短暂遭遇。 洛杉矶晚上7:07，假小子司机柯基（薇诺娜·瑞德 Winona Ryder 饰）载着她的客人维多利亚（吉娜·罗兰兹 Gena Rowlands 饰）回酒店，恰巧负责电影选角的维多利亚看中了柯基，然而柯基却告诉她自己想成为一名机械师…… 纽约晚上10:07，黑人青年尤尤终于拦到了一辆的士，却发现司机是一名根本不会开车且语言不通的外国老人赫尔穆特（阿明·缪勒-斯塔尔 Armin Mueller-Stahl 饰），尤尤只好主动提出由他来开车…… 巴黎凌晨4:07，年轻的黑人司机把两名出言侮辱他的非洲乘客撵下车后，上来了一位美貌的盲女（碧翠斯·黛尔 Béatrice Dalle 饰），他立即对她产生了好奇与怜悯，却发现她比自己更能在这世界上辨明方向。 …… 本片由贾木许自编、自导、自制而成，他在大约八天内完成了剧本创作，各个故事发生的地点则根据他想合作的演员而定。电影原声带则来自于他的老拍档民谣大师Tom Waits。©豆瓣

　　From the Louis Hemon novel "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London. Andre is breaking up with his wife, Catherine, over his attentions to her best friend Patricia. While Catherine is out arranging the divorce, Andre, just to keep in practice, hits on the girl upstairs, Diana and then turns his attention back to Patricia, who he tricks into having dinner at his flat on the pretext that Catherine will be there. When he cannot make any progress with her via his usual tactics, he tries to arouse her pity be telling her of his past. In his early, impoverished days in London, he made love to his boss Anne but her dreadful cooking drove him away. Next came Norah who he picked up on a bus and took to his flat and told her about his make-believe inheritance, but she insisted on marriage first, which was not in his plans. Marcelle, a French woman living in Soho, put him on his feet with money, and he repaid her by stealing fifty pounds and running off. He met the wealthy Catherine at his flat where she came to be tutored in French lessons, and ended up marrying him. But, even at his wedding, he had eyes only for Patricia and, he tells her she is his one true love.