[1] It is a black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss.

Cannibalism is soon introduced to the plot, and further complications arise due to the reappearance of Bjarne's intellectually disabled twin brother Eigil.

The next day, as Holger tells a customer a story about sausages, Svend complains to Bjarne that they could open a better butcher shop.

Bjarne visits the sanatorium where his brain dead brother Eigil is being kept alive on machines, and tells Nurse Juhl to take him off life support because he needs the money he inherited.

Svend and Bjarne discuss hiring an electrician to fix the lights in the meat freezer, and business cards.

The next morning Holger arrives and mocks Svend, and makes an order for a dinner party to spitefully be his first customer.

Bjarne grows tired of Eigil's visits to the butcher shop, and talks to Nurse Juhl, who recommends that he seek a psychiatrist.

They tell Astrid that they believe the butchers are murdering people, and Holger reveals the details of the accident that claimed Bjarne's family.