The main character of the Tusenbröder series is Hoffa (Ola Rapace), living a middle class life with his wife and children in a suburb of Stockholm.
Hoffa owns a small business with his two best friends, Niklas (Shanti Roney) and Hamid (Danilo Bejarano).
First they borrow money from the local mobsters, and when they can't pay them back and realize the danger of the situation they decide to rob a bank.
In jail Hoffa befriends Petter (Jakob Eklund), and they developed a plan for how to escape.
Hoffa decides he wants to go back to Sweden and uses a fake passport, but the police soon find out he has resurfaced.