«نیل مکالی» (دنیرو)، سارقی است که تخصصش انجام سرقت های بزرگ و پرخطر مثل حمله به بانک و وسایل نقلیه ی مخصوص حمل و نقل پول و اوراق بهادار است. «وینسنت هانا» (پاچینو) نیز کارآگاهی است لس آنجلسی که مصمم است او را به دام بیندازد.

Ida's father suddenly gets a stroke and is rushed to the hospital, diagnosed with a deadly disease with no other opportunity than to travel to USA to attend a medical experimental operation. Unfortunately, the small family have to get the money themselves, as the state doesn't pay for that kind of experimental procedures. Ida has to get the money - and she got no other way than to steal them from the bank where her mother works...... developing the banks intense security.