After his estranged FBI father is brutally murdered by rogue mobster-turned-war-profiteer Timmy Vermicelli, precision test driver Driver abandons his sterile life in Germany to hunt the killer. His quest pulls him into a web of international corruption spanning Paris and Baghdad, where he must infiltrate the criminal underworld, outmaneuver French crime lord Victor Lelouch, and form an uneasy alliance with a tenacious reporter. With only his unmatched driving skills and burning rage, Driver races through a gauntlet of betrayal and violence to settle the ultimate debt.
