Hollywood turned Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow into glamorous rebels; this film goes after the grittier record. Drawing on period photographs, crime scene details, and the accounts of investigators and historians who tracked their two-year crime spree across Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, it reconstructs a partnership built less on romance than on desperation, poverty, and a string of botched robberies. The pair's own snapshots, found by police after a shootout, are examined for what they reveal about how Bonnie and Clyde tried to control their own image even as newspapers turned them into celebrities. The film tracks the killings that piled up along the way, including the murders of police officers, and the manhunt led by former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer that ended in the 1934 ambush in Louisiana. What emerges is less Hollywood outlaw glamour than a portrait of two young people who were, by most accounts, cornered, violent, and running out of road long before the final shots were fired.