An unusual night trip in a Italian provincial town, Cagliari, with 5 characters, who live completely different realities but share the same town and illegal, improvised sorts of job. Night bus is the filmic outcome of a competition for ideas called by the Sardinian Film Archive and by the Job Agency of the Sardinia Region.

Paolo Carboni was born in Cagliari in 1966. In 1987 he starts working for Videolina, making TV reports and news. His encounter with Garret Brown, the inventor of the steadycam, and with Argentinean director Fernando Solanas were fundamental for his training and his documentary work. In 1994 he won his first prize with the short film Cadenas, which was awarded first prize at the Italian Independent Video Competition held in Catania; in 1995 he won the Chia Prize for his journalistic reports. He has directed several short films and documentaries.