故事灵感来源于 2000 年初发生在提契诺州的一个真实故事。马里奥是一名遭遇失业的工程师,经济危机的受害者。他对完全超出自己经验及能力的工作机会感到灰心丧气,面对长期以来不得不担负的经济重担又感到忧心忡忡。于是,他决定组织一场世纪大劫案,目标就是瑞士警方刚缴获的史上数量最多的大麻制品。在这批赃品被烧毁之前,马里奥决定组织一个团伙,用干草来 “替代 ”大麻,神不知鬼不觉地偷天换日:简而言之,物证消失了,犯罪也就消失了......马里奥开始在熟人里挑选值得信赖的团伙成员:伊万、奥古斯托、雷奥、莫妮卡、“教授”。虽然他们都不合适,一个比一个更冒险,但他们都接受了马里奥的计划,坚信抢到 “绿金”将彻底改变他们的生活。然而... Mario is an unemployed engineer, a victim of the economic crisis. Discouraged by job advertisements that do not reflect his capabilities and demoralized by numerous financial deadlines, he decides to organize the heist of the century. The police has just stored in a military facility the largest quantity of cannabis ever seized in Switzerland, and it will be burned shortly. Mario plans to substitute it with common hay without anybody noticing: if the evidence simply disappears, so does the crime... Searching for trustworthy members of his gang, Mario brings together Ivan, Augusto, Leo, Monica and 'The Professor', each of them more desperate than the other and convinced to have found the 'green gold' that will change their lives.