悠扬庄重的法螺响起，深夜的码头边，勇敢的白人司机（克里·欧文 Clive Owen 饰）接受了一项史无前例的重要任务。渡船靠岸，从船上下来一名身穿红袍的少年喇嘛（李淳 Mason Lee 饰）。他的脸上浮现出与年龄并不相符的成熟与自信，少年喇嘛送给司机一只小盒子，并阻止 司机立刻打开的念头。他们二人双双进入车厢，谁知此时码头尽头又出现两辆汽车。来者不善，少年喇嘛的行踪和安危足以引起一连串的重大政治事件。 司机沉着冷静，以娴熟的技术驾驶汽车，与对手们在混乱的码头上展开连番紧张刺激又妙趣横生的捉迷藏。他能否将身后这位具有先见之明的少年喇嘛安全送达……

The Driver drag-races the Devil, in order to earn James Brown his soul.

The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs tells the Driver about the horrors he saw as a photographer, but he regrets his inability to help war victims. Jacobs answers the driver curiosity about why he is a photographer by saying how his mother taught him to see. He gives the Driver the film needed for a New York Times story and also his dog tags to give to his mother. When they reach the border, they are confronted by a guard who begins to draw arms as Jacobs begins taking pictures, trying to get himself killed. The Driver drives through a hail of gunfire to the border, but finds Jacobs killed by a bullet through the seat. The Driver arrives in America to visit Jacobs' mother and share the news of him winning the Pulitzer prize and hand over the dog tags, only to discover that she is blind.