The story of a Danish prematurely retired chef who, like another mole, infiltrates one of the world's most brutal dictatorships and documents everything with a camera. Directed by documentary filmmaker Mads Brügger, the Mole is whirled into secret plans for oil smuggling, drugs and high-tech weapon systems. After ten years of undercover operation, the world can now see for the first time on television how the North Korean regime is actively trying to break the UN's harsh sanctions against the country. The events take off in earnest, as the Mole meets a man who offers that North Korea can produce both drugs and weapons for risk-averse investors.

The mole and the fake businessman Mr. James is getting deeper and deeper into deals with North Korean arms dealers and officials. After a sensational trip to North Korea, the couple arrives in Uganda, where plans are made to create a secret, underground weapons and drug factory. Meanwhile, other North Korean friends have developed a plan for a million-dollar deal between North Korea, Mr. James and a Jordanian oil trader.

In Copenhagen, the mole and the fake businessman Mr. James an agreement with the North Koreans on weapons, oil and millions of dollars. And the trip then goes to Cambodia, where the sanctioned North Koreans present the latest weapons on the storage shelves. But the sand in the hourglass is running out. The time has come when the mole must unveil its real mission, namely to expose North Korea's sanctions