Relocated mobster Frank Tagliano opens a new nightclub, and is soon offered contraband liquor found in a truck by a local taxi driver. However, several members of a motorcycle gang do not realise what they are up against when they try to retrieve the illicit booze. Meanwhile, the police chief begins to wonder who her new neighbour really is when moonshine apparatus explodes in the basement of his house.
Frank Tagliano, is a former member of the New York mob. After testifying in a trial in the United States, Tagliano is relocated to Lillehammer in Norway through the FBI's witness protection program. Frank Tagliano was intrigued by Lillehammer when he saw television images of the Winter Olympics in 1994, and therefore chooses to start his new life there.
The transition from being a feared and respected gangster in New York, to become an unemployed immigrant in Norway, is not simple. Frank discovers that to get up and in the Norwegian rural society, he must resort to the old, ruthless methods.