Harry is a taxi driver. He lives alone on the outskirts of Vienna and works only at night. He has left his old life behind and he hasn't much of a future, either. Mercedes is from Mexico. She is an exotic, beautiful and seductive woman, self-confident but also naive. Together with her German boyfriend, she has smuggled a kilo of cocaine into Austria, in order to make some quick cash. At the airport, they ingeniously outwitted the customs officials, but now they have to make a deal fast, and then disappear. But things don't work out as planned; in fact, they turn into a nightmare...