Former race car driver and
American expatriate Peter Roberts has retired at the urging of his lawyer wife,
though he resists getting an office job. Instead, he becomes an instructor at a
driving school, while waiting for an investment opportunity to open a racing
school. After he drops his daughter off to school and learns that he can no
longer afford her private school tuition, he takes a fellow American as his
first client. The man, Simon Keller, reveals that he has investigated Roberts'
finances and personal life. Disturbed, Roberts insists on ending the lesson and
returning to the school. Keller agrees but requests that they stop at a bank
first, so that he can pay Roberts.
As Keller exits the bank, he
opens fire on the guards, drops a bag into the car, and demands that Roberts
serve as his getaway driver. Roberts protests in disbelief and attempts to
surrender to the police, who open fire on him, too. Roberts reluctantly drives
off and evades the police. Keller offers to share a percentage of his loot, but
the panicked Roberts insists that he is now going to end up in jail. Keller
assures him that the police will not pursue them, as the bank is owned and
managed by a criminal syndicate with connections to the local police. Rossi,
Keller's former associate, had previously betrayed him in the United States and
then joined the Australian syndicate.
Rossi calls off the police and
hires mercenaries to kill them. However, Agent Walker of the Australian
Federal Police takes charge of the investigation over the objections of
the corrupt Detective Chief Inspector Smith. Walker immediately threatens Rossi
and Smith, both of whom she suspects to be part of the syndicate. Meanwhile,
Keller and Roberts argue over Roberts' disappointment in his life, which Keller
states is the result of giving up on his dreams. Upset, Roberts refuses to
drive any further, and Keller shoots him with a rubber bullet. The two change
cars, and Roberts once again becomes the reluctant driver.
After they evade Rossi's
assassins, the car fails, and they pull into a reception hall. The owners
recognize them, and an elderly woman viciously attacks Roberts after
accidentally shooting her husband. Roberts and Keller escape in the husband's
sports car and stop for gas. There, they are again recognized and attacked,
though the cashier accidentally kills himself with his own shotgun. At Keller's
urging, Roberts phones the police and his wife, telling both that he has been
taken hostage, though neither believe him at first. In order to heighten
Roberts' fear and make him more believable, Keller puts a gun to Roberts' head
and threatens to kill him. In response, Roberts briefly holds Keller at
gunpoint with the elderly woman's pistol, but he surrenders it when he realizes
that it is empty.
Resigned to his fate as the
getaway driver, Roberts offers to drive Keller to his final destination, a
marina. On the way, the two reconcile their differences when both admit that
the other has made good points about their respective lifestyles. When Roberts
antagonizes a motorcycle gang, they become hostile and threaten to kill him.
Keller saves his life, and, during the confrontation, the gang reveal
themselves to be mercenaries in Rossi's pay. Roberts and Keller fight them off,
only to be beset by Rossi himself and more mercenaries at the marina.
Meanwhile, DCI Smith confronts Agent Walker, and Walker kills Smith in
self-defense.
At the marina, Roberts and Keller
defeat the mercenaries, and Roberts declines a share in Keller's stolen loot.
Shot and left chained by Keller, Rossi is arrested. Keller handcuffs Roberts to
the car and the two argue over whether Keller should punch him to make the
situation look more believable; Roberts eventually agrees. Finding him ragged,
wounded, and beaten, the police finally believe Roberts' story, and he returns
to his family, who now respect him. Though she disapproves, Roberts' wife
acquiesces to his return to professional racing.
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