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What do you do if your whole life suddenly turns out to be a lie? If the people closest to you are stabbing you in the back? If you have to watch helplessly as your entire life’s work is stolen from you?
This is exactly what happens to Phil Druyts, a hardworking self-made man, who built up his father-in-law’s ice cream shop into a profitable gelato empire. They call him Phil "Frisco", after his ice cream, and he’s proud of it.
But when his wife and eldest son sell the company to a multinational organization behind Phil's back, his world collapses. Phil feels so betrayed, so abused, that he makes an unexpected and bold move that flips his life and family upside down, but also affects the whole country...
Phil organizes his own kidnapping together with his old army buddy and a bunch of crazy criminals. But from the word go, the plan starts backfiring.
The family secrets, the press’ sensationalism, the pressure on the cops to deliver, the bizarre steps of the eccentric kidnappers, escape routes through the summery forests of the Western-like countryside of Flanders, stolen cars that explode, a large ransom in diamonds, and his wife giving ridiculous speeches on television, makes The Kidnapping of Phil Frisco an unmissable comedy crime series across 10 entertaining episodes.