Ryan Gosling is a really good getaway driver. In the opening scene he gets away from a bunch of cop cars and a helicopter by parking at a baseball game.
Him and Bryan Cranston work together as mechanics and stuntmen, as well they are trying to get into racing Nascar or something. These two dudes, Bernie and Nino, help them buy a race car.
Gosling and his neighbour, Irene, are in some kind of a relationship, but her husband gets out of jail and it ends. The husband is sort of upset with Gosling cause he knows something went on. However the husband gets caught up with some criminal, Cook, and is forced to do one last job to save his family and Gosling helps him as the driver for the heist.
They try to rob a pawnshop with Christina Hendricks. Hendricks comes out with the money and the husband comes out, but gets shot and dies. There's a car chase. Gosling and Hendricks get away to a hotel room. He thinks she was in on it, because why did she get away? He slaps her and yells at her for information. She admits she was in on it and Cook made her do it. Just then two guys show up with guns. Hendricks dies, Gosling kills the two dudes.
Gosling goes after Cook. Breaks his hand with a hammer and he finds out Nino is the guy who set it up. He phones Nino and tells him he just wants to give back the money and be done with it. Nino threatens him. Gosling then follows Nino in a car and pushes his car off the road onto a beach. He drowns Nino in the ocean.
Gosling goes back to the garage to find Cranston was killed by Bernie. Gosling calls Bernie and gives him the same deal as Nino. Give the money back to be out and Irene and her kid to be safe. Bernie agrees. They meet up to exchange the money. Just as Bernie sees the money he stabs Gosling in the stomach. Gosling stabs Bernie in the neck. Bernie dies. Gosling drives off. The credits roll. Presumably he dies. The end.