Milo, an aging Serbian drug lord, sits through a Narcotics Anonymous meeting with a quiet fear: the stress of cooking for his daughter’s 25th birthday party might push him back into old habits. After the meeting, he heads out with his loyal henchman, Branko, only to discover the shipment he’s supposed to pick up isn’t heroin at all—it’s 10,000 ecstasy pills. To get an explanation, he confronts his Albanian supplier, Luan, who quietly suggests a way forward: Milo can still receive a heroin shipment and, crucially, he might also try to sell the ecstasy on the side.
Back at his club kitchen, Milo tries to balance the realities of his underworld business with the demands of a family party. He endures his spoiled daughter, Milena, who pushes for attention while he works. When his crew collapses from a disastrous batch of his own cooking, Milo reluctantly entrusts the ecstasy sale to his volatile associate, Muhammed—a brash young dealer who calls himself the “King of Copenhagen” and who demands Milo’s respect in return. Milo has little choice but to rely on Muhammed to set up a buyer, hoping the hour-long window will hold.
As the party unfolds, Milo prowls between guest interactions, kitchen duties, and the nagging fear that Muhammed might still be late. While out buying wine from an underground supplier, Milo learns that Milena’s boyfriend, Mike, is deeply entangled in the drug trade. He asserts himself, forcing Mike to accept him as the sole supplier and driving a hard bargain with Milena over price. A chance encounter in a restaurant with Kurt the Cunt, a low-level dealer, yields a hit of heroin and a jolt of relief—until the drug fog catches up to him and he uses some of it, momentarily breaking under pressure.
The internet of lies tightens when a corrupt cop promises to track Muhammed down, giving Milo a dangerous sense of control that quickly falters. In a desperate moment, Milo admits to Luan that the ecstasy shipment is lost and requests more time, but the Albanians force him into a tighter partnership to square the debt. The next grim chapter unfolds in Milo’s own kitchen, where Rexho—the Albanian enforcer—arrives with a Polish pimp and a plan to traffic a young girl into prostitution. Milo instinctively recoils from the arrangement, but Rexho treats him as a subordinate, forcing him to serve drinks and food while the pimp drugs Milo with a brutal prank.
Jeanette, a local brothel operator, is invited to take the girl but senses something is off and refuses. The girl herself reveals it’s her birthday, a detail Milo remembers from his own family stories, and he offers her a slice of his daughter’s birthday cake—a small, human moment in a widening storm. When Rexho departs, the girl tries to flee, and Milo gives chase in a rare display of protective resolve. The pimp retaliates with a brutal act—boiling water on the girl’s hand—an eruption of cruelty that pushes Milo over the edge.
In a calculated, quiet fury, Milo smashes the pimp with a hammer, then turns his attention to Rexho and kills him as well. The corrupt cop reappears, delivering Muhammed to Milo in the trunk of the car and warning him to back off. Faced with a crisis that spirals beyond control, Milo seeks help from his old ally and ex-henchman Radovan, who has left the underworld to run a kebab shop. Radovan agrees to one last aid: help Milo torture Muhammed so the truth can come out.
Muhammed breaks under the pressure and reveals that the pills Milo received were fake. Milo and Radovan dispose of the evidence by stashing Muhammed in a freezer and methodically destroying the two bodies. As dawn breaks, Milo returns to his tranquil home and finds Milena waiting, asking where he had disappeared to during the night. He answers with a quiet distance, then goes to bed. He stands in his backyard afterward, the night air cool on his face, and stares into the empty swimming pool as he smokes, contemplating the cost of a life spent inside a circle of violence that feeds both his hunger and his fear.
