Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what’s-his-name, the sidekick. Three teens with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulder blades, and guns.

The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on heading? As their criminal offense spree slashes a swath through rural Minnesota, a few of it captured for the killers’ mobile phones and delivered to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops attempting to perform them down. But also he doesn’t realize what’s going to happen next.