Matt Turner (Liam Neeson) is a successful American businessman living in Berlin, doing his best to reconcile his brand new financial career with his family responsibilities. Driving his kids to school one morning, Matt receives a phone call from a mysterious voice: there’s a bomb under his seat that will detonate unless he completes a series of specific tasks, and does it fast. Trapped in the car in a speeding race through the city, Matt must follow the stranger’s increasingly dangerous instructions in a race against time to protect his family and solve the day-long mystery.