Elias Mohammed Hussein is a 47 year old man.  He drives for Allied Taxis ferrying passengers around the city of Shaddingham in the dead of night.  Married to Shaziah with three children Abdullah, Elena and Ahmed he leads a simple life of work and sleep.

Elias, known as 'Eddie' by many is desperately lonely and unhappy, living a solitary life, removed from the rest of the world as it spins around him.