Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle stunt rider, sells his soul to the devil. In order to save his father, he agrees to serve as his bounty hunter.
Over one hundred years ago, Mephisto (comics), a demon who masquerades as the Devil, sent his bounty hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve a document known as the Contract of San Venganza, a list of a thousand corrupt souls. Seeing that the contract would give Mephistopheles the power to unleash hell on Earth, the rider refuses to give him the contract.
Johnny Blaze, tortured by the Ghost Rider's curse, gets a chance of redemption through protecting the Devil's son, whose father is pursuing him.