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.

When the new boy in class, Jørgen, moves into the haunted house down the road, Anne’s world turns upside-down; she falls head over heals in love with him.