 The smalltown hairdresser Bjarne (Kurt Ravn) is planning the wedding of his daughter to one of the police-officers in town, but he can hardly afford it. At the same time the towns mayor (Peter Schrøder) gets a visit from his brother Knud (Niels Olsen) who has stolen a Van Gogh painting and is on the run and needs money. If he doesn t get it he will tell the newspapers about his brothers shady past. But Knuds ex-partner and a mysterious Japanese man is on the trail of him. Soon everybody is mixed into the story and the painting changes hands several times...