Arturo is an unscrupulous art dealer and Renzo his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend. Willing to risk it all, they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.

A framed con man, Leo (Peter Lanzani) has to impersonate an orthodox Jew in order to escape ruthless killers Duges (Gerard Depardieu), López (Santiago Segura) and Harken (Hugo Silva).