No other outlaws in American history became more famous than Missouri's Frank and Jesse James. From 1866 to 1882, they led a gang that robbed banks and held up trains, continually defying the Yankee authorities in the aftermath of the Civil War.

A middle-class family's life turns into hell when a mother and wife crosses a mother's line with a son. Blackmail is now being applied. The father comes to learn that his wife may be the reason for the death of his child. And he is out for revenge.