Freddy Bernaerts is the owner of a transport company, but he also runs an illegal side business: he uses his trucks to smuggle drugs into the country from all over Europe. Director Marc Potvin of the Federal Police is a cop with big ambitions and an even bigger ego, who is dead set on catching Bernaerts. Potvin has a proposition for small-time fraudster Danny Desmedt: if he can help him close down Freddy's operation, all charges against him will be dropped. Initially, Danny is not keen on it. He may be a fraudster, but he's not a rat. But his personal situation doesn't leave him much choice: his rich girlfriend has found out he has a police record and has kicked him out of the house. In one fell swoop, Danny loses the roof over his head, his nice car and his pay check. He has his back against the wall and so, he accepts Potvin's proposition.