Taxi Man came to America for a better life. After marrying a woman and bringing her to the States illegally, he discovers her cheating on him with another man. In a fit of rage he kills her and her lover, dooming himself to a life of dread and fear.
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.