When an ex-CIA agent discovers his family have been kidnapped he sets out to rescue them, only to discover they are being held hostage and won't be released unless he carries out a mission to assassinate the President. He must use his advanced skills to outwit the men holding his family and prevent the assassination from going ahead before the clock runs out for his family.
A popular Los Angeles radio DJ, Maurice Manning, finds himself trapped in the Virgin Islands. Thrown into a battle between an island mystic and the criminal underworld of payola and illegal drugs. It's a harrowing trip that rips him out of his self-absorption toward redemption. Believing he is in control of his world, Maurice uncovers the dark figures pulling the strings of his career through Zerai, a prophet, poet and warrior, whose life-long goal is to keep the islands safe. For the first time in his life, Maurice feels compassion for humanity and discovers how he has been manipulated. He finally learns his lesson in a life and death struggle. The revenge Maurice wreaks upon the criminals may not save his heart, but perhaps, will save his soul.
낮에는 스턴트맨과 자동차 정비소 직원, 밤에는 범죄집단의 도주를 돕는 운전을 하는 드라이버(라이언 고슬링). 이름조차 불리지 않는 무미건조한 그의 삶에 어느 날 아이린(캐리 멀리건)이 찾아왔다. 옆집에 사는 아이린과 교감하며 따스함을 느끼던 것도 잠시, 감옥에 가 있던 아이린의 남편이 돌아오며 모든 것은 원점으로 돌아간다. 하지만 감옥에서 진 빚 때문에 협박을 받자 그녀의 행복을 지키기 위해 갱단의 요구대로 전당포 터는 일에 협조하지만 함정에 빠지고, 위험에 노출된 아이린을 지키기 위한 드라이버의 폭주가 시작된다. 숨막히는 폭력과 치열한 사투를 벌이던 그는 서서히 자신의 숨겨져 있던 냉혹한 본성과 마주하게 되는데...
Jane Alexander's idyllic life in San Francisco is shattered when her beloved, elderly aunt is brutally murdered. But when her fiancé, Tom O'Donnell, becomes the main suspect, Jane must put aside her grief to aid the police before the chance at justice is lost forever.
