Kate "Ma" Barker is a young girl who has been sexually assaulted. By the 1930s, she has developed into a viciously powerful woman. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and raises them to be a gang of fierce robbers under her tutelage. Aside from Lloyd, there are three other boys: the vicious Herman, who still sleeps in Ma's bed; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Fred's kid, Fred, who gets hooked on whatever is available. They get together to form a lethal and weird family of Depression-era robbers known as the "Depression Gang."
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Kate "Ma" Barker is a young girl who has been sexually assaulted. By the 1930s, she has developed into a viciously powerful woman. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and raises them to be a gang of fierce robbers under her tutelage. Aside from Lloyd, there are three other boys: the vicious Herman, who still sleeps in Ma's bed; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Fred's kid, Fred, who gets hooked on whatever is available. They get together to form a lethal and weird family of Depression-era robbers known as the "Depression Gang."
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