Eight journeys which change lives forever - a New York fashion buyer returns to her English home, a successful author meets an old friend, a reporter travels to an executionj, a lorry driver gives an escaped prisoner a lift, a taxi driver picks up "Bruce Lee", a bus ride home changes a film writer´s life and work, a man´s love for a tram driver leads him to follow her, and four strangers meet at a motel for the first and last time.