In 1991, driver Alex Furlong competes in a Formula One Grand Prix race and has a fatal accident. Victor Vacendak, a bounty hunter from 2009, goes back in time to steal Alex’s body for use in another person’s mind transplant. Returning to 2009, a medical team revives Alex aboard a mobile medical unit, and his memory is still intact. They attempt to perform a lobotomy, but fail due to an outside guerilla attack. Vacendak observes Alex escape through a hole in the truck, and orders his soldiers to bring him back alive. Alex returns to his girl friend Julie Redlund’s apartment, only to discover new tenants have lived there for years. Referring to Alex as a “freejack,” the residents do not explain what the term means, but tell him they cannot help him. While on the run, Alex notices a neon sign that indicates the date is November 23, 2009. Elsewhere, the client waiting to inhabit Alex’s body has been told of the escape. With only thirty-six hours left to complete the transfer, the client refuses to consider an alternate body for his resurrection. Vacendak’s boss, Mark Michelette, attempts to fire him, but the bounty hunter insists he will capture Alex and complete the assignment. Alex takes refuge in a church, and is discovered by an unsympathetic nun with a rifle. At his office, Vacendak inputs Alex’s identity into a central data bank to ensure an easier capture. Meanwhile, the nun explains how wealthy citizens store their minds in a computer known as “the spiritual switchboard” until they undergo body reassignment. She is unable to locate Julie in a current directory, but finds that Alex’s racing promoter, Brad Carr, lives in Sector 7, formerly known as Park Slope. As Alex leaves, the nun gives him a pistol for protection. Alex reunites with Brad, who reveals that wealthy patrons seek out bodies from the past like Alex’s because they have not been contaminated by pollutants. He also says that Julie works as an executive vice president at a powerful company known as the McCandless Corporation. She is a dealmaker for “Mac” McCandless, who sends her around the world on business. Brad dresses Alex in the local fashion, places a telephone call, and claims that Julie’s office promises to send a limousine even though Brad has informed police of Alex’s whereabouts to collect a reward. Violence ensues as police shoot Brad in the chest, and Alex escapes through an alley. Stealing a futuristic police motorcycle, Alex drives into the city to Julie’s apartment, but she does not believe he still exists and activates a burglar alarm, forcing him to run for his life. Meanwhile, Vacendak and his squad descend on Julie’s apartment. As Alex steals a food truck, Vacendak and support units pursue him onto a bridge. Alex jumps into the river below just as his truck plows into a parked maintenance vehicle and explodes. At her apartment, Julie revisits her mementos of Alex, and something Vacendak said makes her realize that she was wrong to mistrust Alex. She and a colleague, Boone, scour a homeless encampment near the river, and find Alex. He is skeptical that she has come to help until she explains that Vacendak set a trap by leaving her apartment door open. She promises to help Alex, and they embrace. Soon, electronic billboards all over the city advertise a $10 million reward for Alex’s capture. Julie visits Morgan, a freedom fighter who rescues freejacks, but he advises that Alex’s fugitive status is too dangerous to handle, and she should consult her powerful boss, McCandless. Although the McCandless Corporation manages the spiritual switchboard, privacy laws protect the members. McCandless claims that he can do nothing through legal channels, but suggests that Julie contact him in a few hours. In a quiet moment, Alex and Julie make love. Later, McCandless arranges for Alex to escape by boat. On the way to the waterfront, Alex wants to resume his relationship with Julie, but she claims she cannot go back in time after eighteen years. They say their goodbyes, and Julie’s associate, Boone, escorts Alex to the boat. However, Vacendak blows up the vessel, and chases Boone and Alex. Soon, Vacendak discovers that his boss, Michelette, has sent additional troops to capture Alex, and they also have orders to kill him and his men. Boone and Alex become separated, and Boone is shot. After numerous close calls, Alex comes face-to-face with Vacendak and demands to know the name of the client who wants his body, and learns it is Mac McCandless. Vacendak’s soldiers surround Alex, but he is given a five-minute head start to escape. Julie rescues Alex in an armored tank, and Mark Michelette invites them to the McCandless headquarters to meet Mac. After watching a film clip of Alex’s racing accident, they discover Mac’s body resting in a glass coffin. Michelette reveals that Mac succumbed to a virus three days earlier, and his mind will disintegrate in an hour. Michelette plans to take over the company, and fires Julie, giving Alex and Julie permission to leave. He orders troops to kill them, but Vacendak and his men decimate Michelette’s soldiers. An elevator forces Alex and Julie to ride to the roof until they reach the spiritual switchboard. They pass through a series of corridors and landscapes until Mac greets them and explains they are actually talking to his mind. He confesses that he never meant to harm anyone, but over the years he fell in love with Julie and longed for the day when his affection would be reciprocated. If he could slip inside Alex’s body then everything would fall into place, but now he sees the folly of his ways. As they watch, he contacts Vacendak and pretends to end his contract to capture Alex, assuring him that he will be paid in full. However, Vacendak appears with his men and Alex is forced to undergo the transfer. In the middle of the process, Michelette arrives, and Julie grabs a gun from a guard, damaging the spiritual switchboard computer. Michelette announces that he is now in charge of McCandless Corporation, but Alex claims that the transfer was completed and he is now Mac. Having doubts, Michelette insists that Alex reveal Mac’s personal identification number. When Vacendak verifies that the number sequence is correct, Michelette draws his gun, but he is killed by the bounty hunter, and his men. Alex, as Mac, calls for his antique car and drives Julie to a train station, where Vacendak is waiting. When Vacendak leans over and tells Alex that Mac did not know how to drive, Julie protests that her lover knew the correct identification number. Vacendak gives a sly grin, revealing that he went along with the ruse even though the identification number Alex gave was not even close.