In a world obsessed with speed and cult of celebrity, James Ballard, a depressed TV producer who has just been in an automobile accident, discovers a thriving underground subculture. The people in it derive sexual pleasure from mangled vehicles and mutilated bodies. For Ballard, this is a chance to reignite some of the passion lacking in his marriage. However, as he dives deeper into a tangled web of relationships surrounded by deliberate automobile crashes, his darkest desires come to the surface.