Laura (Iben Hjejle) owes people money, a lot of money. On the surface she seems to have it together, but deep down she gets off on the prospect of a slot machine’s payoff. It’s addictive and expensive, especially when you rarely win! At the advertising agency where she works Laura starts taking money from the till. She is caught by her boss and suddenly Laura is out of a job and has an enormous gambling debt to pay. At home everything is just fine. Laura’s boyfriend Soren doesn’t suspect a thing. He has a symbiotic relationship to his laptop and his beige trouser make him almost completely nondescript. Yet he does notice that Laura’s working hours have changed, but not until the day he finds the apartment completely razed and Laura gone, does he realize that everything is not as it should be.

Klaus (Kim Bodnia) is a debt collector of the lowest kind and with his ADD sidekick (Allan Olsen) it’s obvious that the two of them have a dirty way of settling accounts. This time it’s Laura’s turn. Klaus tries to get tough with her when he knocks on her door, but he can’t quite manage the role of bully. Yet Laura play the role rather well when she beats him to the punch and trashes the apartment before he gets a chance to say installment plan!

Klaus is pressured by Holger, the loan shark, who lent him a small sum to start a boxing club. But instead of repaying his debt, Klaus is told to work off his debt as Holger’s henchman. Klaus and Laura quickly realize that they’re cut from the same cloth and make a last desperate attempt to pay off old debts of a financial and emotional nature. They embark on a roller-coaster ride where cheating pays off, but is bloody hard work. This leads them to the effeminate dog trimmer (Casper Christensen), a world middle-weight champion (Dif) and a lot of emotional and physical knocks. But Klaus and Laura’s odds are terrible: How do you trust a lying gambler who could gamble her family away if only there were made of coins? And how do you treat a former boxer who has always expressed himself with his fists rather than his mouth?

Sharks is a (madly) funny film about two people being pressured from all sides. An energetic, urban comedy about the danger of slot machines and the people who raise the stakes in the casino of love, yet still hit below the belt.