A taxi driver (Quaid) pounds Zen parables (if time money, is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his date's dead dog and get back to the babe who's so hot she mutters darkly about being a pressure cooker.
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
A drama about the menace and unease that lurk in small-town America and the inescapable forces that test the patience, fidelity, and even good sense of the most ordinary people.
