The long-standing friendship between Finn and Jacob is wearing thin, and when Finn squanders both their fortunes on yet another financial scam, Jacob has had enough. He leaves his friend, plunging Finn into a deep personal crisis. By chance, they are reunited in Sweden, where Jacob has made a new life for himself. The pair try to patch things up, but it turns out that they both have hidden agendas.

A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends.

The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...