The story follows James Ballard (played by ), a film producer who, along with his wife Catherine ( Deborah Kara Unger ), lives a life of hollow sexual experimentation. Their world is upended after a near-fatal head-on collision with Dr. Helen Remington ( Holly Hunter ). This brush with death introduces them to an underground subculture of "symphorophiliacs"—people who derive sexual arousal from car accidents.
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