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Commissioner Esko Heinonen is alerted to be a negotiator in a hostage situation, where he is faced with the extremely dangerous Ilpo Larha. The police management doubts whether the inexperienced Heinones is a negotiator with a manipulative psychopath. Just three years earlier, Ilpo Larha is an ordinary taxi driver who has just met the love of his life. The attraction to danger makes the young man try his hand at driving a getaway car, and a criminal career begins.

Ilpo threatens to blow up the apartment building if his demands are not met. Negotiator Esko Heinonen finds himself in a difficult situation. Could the threat be real? A couple of years earlier, an influential criminal leader asks Ilpo for help in a bombing. This could be a taxi driver's way to the top of the criminal world. Ilpo has to think about whether he should kill people for money. The well-developed relationship with Merja is weighing on the second cup of balance.

The police management demands Esko Heino to agree to Ilpo's demands in order to protect bystanders. Can a manipulative murderer be trusted? A couple of years earlier, Ilpo Larha and Harri Ratia start planning the murder of Frank Högsten's father. Ilpo exudes self-confidence and intends to plan the perfect crime.

The continuous surveillance for more than a day tightens the situation to the extreme both inside and outside the besieged apartment. They are trying to resolve the situation with violence. A couple of years earlier, the investigations of the murder-for-hire progress inexorably and Ilpo Larha feels the net tightening around him. Ilpo and Harri decide to commit a daring crime to finance their getaway. Merja finally finds out about her husband's nocturnal excursions when she is forced to offer Ilpo an alibi. An unprecedented murder for hire in Finland causes the press to go wild and Ilpo sees its opportunity to get into the limelight.

Esko Heinonen suddenly gets an opportunity to try to save the hostages, but is the risk too great? Less than a year earlier, Ilpo begins his life sentence in Katajanokka, but swears that he will escape at the first opportunity. The big-mouthed youth soon has violent enemies and has to come up with surprising ways to survive the clutches of his abusers.

Ilpo Larha has lost his bargaining chip and Esko Heino is under pressure to resolve the situation. Ilpo makes one more big demand before he agrees to surrender. Just a couple of weeks earlier, the whole of Finland was looking for Ilpo Larha and Kalervo Hakola, who had escaped from prison. Ilpo commits a daring crime to get the money for the explosives he needs for his revenge project. The two head towards Lahti. Ilpo wants to sort things out with Merja, but is it too late to end his life of crime?