Speedo is a feature verite documentary about the promising racing career and troubled family life of Ed "Speedo" Jager, one of the nation's top demolition derby drivers.

The film captures Speedo's collisions and confrontations on and off the track during one tumultuous year, beginning during the summer racing season at Long Island's Riverhead Raceway and culminating at the National Demolition Derby Championship in Fellsmere, Florida.

"It's an addiction," says Speedo, "like nitro-methane through your veins."

Speedo - a legend in the hard-hitting world of "demo" - quickly racks up an impressive series of victories, including the New Jersey Championship, and dreams of earning the opportunity to drive a "real" race car. After one particularly controversial win in the dangerous Figure 8 Demo, Speedo is viciously attacked by rival drivers, who accuse him of cheating. The incident exposes the violent undercurrents that ripple through Speedo's personal life, and we soon discover that the very forces that propel him to victory on the track threaten to destroy his marriage and tear his family apart.

Speedo is devoted to his two sons, who aspire to follow in their father's footsteps, but barely on speaking terms with his wife, Linda, who refuses to come to the track to support him. As his twenty year marriage crumbles, Speedo is kicked out of his house in Levittown, Long Island, and moves in with his friend Dino.

When he falls for Liz Mallows, a racetrack official from Flemington, New Jersey, his life changes in completely unexpected ways, and he finds a measure of personal happiness that allows him to finally leave the rage-fueled world of demo behind.

Speedo is an original American love story set amidst the dangerous, bare-knuckled world of demolition derby. The film looks beneath the surface of Speedo's violent obsession to locate the source of his rage, and captures, in universally resonant terms, his dramatic struggle to achieve his dreams on the track and succeed as a husband, a father and a man.