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 ...