 An Asian businessman lands in Rome. He will be driven to the enigmatic Cosmos Hotel by a down-and-out gypsy-cab driver, who gets more and more upset with a threat that looms over him, coming from an Eastern European underworld figure that is looking for him to settle some mysterious accounts. Along the route though a dark, metaphysical Rome downtown, as the Japanese businessman looks on naively, weird and restless people put the driver on his guard uselessly...