After getting into a serious car accident, commercial director James Ballard (James Spader) finds himself slowly descending into a fetishistic underworld of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, who find metallic collisions a sexual turn-on and a jolting life force they come to crave. Based on J.G. Ballard's future-shock novel of the 1970s. Winner of the Jury Special Prize at Cannes, and nominated for the Palme d'Or.