Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), Norway's most successful Recruiter, supports his lavish lifestyle by stealing paintings from his clients; his partner, Ove (:no:Eivind Sander), works at a surveillance company and deactivates security at the victims' homes, allowing Roger to swap the art for a counterfeit. Asked to dinner by his mistress, Lotte (Julie Ølgaard), Roger declines and ends their relationship. Roger's wife and art gallery owner, Diana (Synnøve Macody Lund), introduces him to Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), a former executive for global positioning system company HOTE, who wants to work for Pathfinder, whom Roger is recruiting for. Diana reveals that Clas has asked her to authenticate a lost Peter Paul Rubens painting he inherited that is believed to be worth millions.