The true tale of Pearl Hart, the first woman to rob a stagecoach in the Old West. After escaping an abusive husband, Pearl heads west for a life of adventure. Her plans soon go awry when she loses her job as a cook in the silver mines and she gets word from home that her mother is gravely ill. Without any money to care for her ailing mother, Pearl makes a fateful decision to enter a life of crime. With the help of an accomplice, Joe Boot, she holds up a stagecoach and becomes the Wild West's notorious Bandit Queen.