In 1976, in Johannesburg, the efficient anti-racist Homicide/Robbery Police Captain Andre Stander has a nervous breakdown after killing an unarmed man in an apartheid protest. Stander decides to confront and mock the established corrupt system heisting twenty-six banks while working for the police department. He is captured and sentenced to thirty-two years in prison; however, he succeeds to escape with the criminals Lee McCall and Allan Heyl and together they form “The Stander Gang” and rob another twenty banks in six months.