Olle Hultén’s 13-year-old son, Jimmy, takes hostages at his school, and demands that his father and mother be released from prison. At the same time, Olle’s ex-wife, Monika, manages to escape from a prisoner transport and goes to Strömstad to pick up Jimmy, who lives with Josefin, Olle’s wife, to take him abroad. Olle realizes that he must get out of prison - and quickly. Josefin has lost everything since the big robbery in Sandefjord. Her husband is in prison, the social services have taken her daughter, and she has no job or future. She can either lie down and die - or she can team up with Olle’s extremely delinquent ex-wife and find a way out of her hopeless situation.