After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer or as he calls it, Lilyhammer.

After a student at the University of Ithaca films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the homemade sex tape to his girlfriend in Austin. In a frenzy, he must borrow a car and hit the road in a desperate bid to intercept the tape.

A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.

Unwittingly framed for murder, Jim Mix is desperate to escape an insane asylum in the Deep South. In his flight from the institution, Jim embarks on a physical and spiritual quest to regain his life in False River.