When a struggling single mom cons her way into the life of a reclusive NASCAR legend, an unlikely bond offers them a final lap at redemption - if the past doesn’t spin them out first.

SYNOPSIS:

Set against the blisterin’ asphalt and smoky backroads of the Deep South, WILDER is a slow-burn redemption tale soaked in gasoline, grief, and ghosts.

Sophie Waters is a broke single mom with two kids, a bruised face, and no more fucks to give. With a journalism degree gathering dust and the weight of generational trauma on her back, she reinvents herself as “Jessie Collins,” a fake reporter from TIME Magazine, and sets out to score an exclusive interview with reclusive NASCAR legend Eli Wilder - a Hail Mary play for a real writing job and a way out.

Eli Wilder is a Southern racing icon - part myth, part man, all regret. Sixty-one and closing in on his final race, Eli’s haunted by the past: the death of his best friend Jimmy, a moonshine legacy soaked in secrets, and the growing sense that he’s just a relic in a sport gone corporate. When “Jessie” shows up, full of charm, questions, and half-truths, he sees something familiar: someone running from themselves.

What begins as a con turns into an unexpected connection. Over hotdogs by the fire and whiskey-soaked nights, Sophie and Eli lower their armor. She wants to tell his story - the real one. He wants to forget it. But ghosts don’t stay buried. Sophie digs too deep, uncovers secrets about Jimmy, Eli’s sexuality, and a betrayal that nearly destroyed them both. Eli lashes out, the old wounds tear open, and Sophie’s cover crumbles.

Meanwhile, Sophie’s abusive ex is hunting her down. The lie she’s been living - and the new life she’s trying to build - collide. After a bar fight lands them both in jail, their bond is tested. Sophie admits who she really is. Eli sees her not as a fraud, but as kin - another wounded soul clawing for light. He calls in a favor to qualify last in his final race, just to give her time to write the story her kids will be proud of.

On race day, Eli is a man transformed - not from fame, but from facing his past head-on. Sophie watches from the stands as Eli barrels toward legacy, not just on the track, but in the truth he’s finally chosen to own. Whether he wins or not doesn’t matter anymore - he’s free. And Sophie? She’s finally found her voice, her truth, and the grit to claim a future that’s hers.

WILDER is about redemption, identity, and the shit we carry from our past - and how sometimes the only way forward is through. It's a Southern gothic wrapped in racing leathers - about facin’ your demons full throttle and findin’ peace in the wreckage.

By the time the checkered flag drops, you’ll know this ain’t just about racin’.

It’s about reckonin’.