Jimmy is an undocumented Nigerian immigrant who works as a cab driver in Chicago and gets caught up in a complex web of intrigue,murder, rape and police corruption. On a routine cab run, Jimmy gets pulled over by the cops, and his passenger McMann, a corrupt Chicago Police Dept Detective protects him from arrest . When McMann decides to eliminate a witness to a crime that he is involved in, he sets Jimmy up as a convenient fall guy. However, things don’t go as smoothly as McMann planned them to, as his plans are foiled by the ingenious plan that the unlikely alliance of Chante ( Jimmy girlfriend), Fonzo (her erstwhile lover) , and John (Jimmy’s friend,also Nigerian) come up to save Jimmy.