Based on the true story of Dulce, a Portuguese woman who single-handedly robbed 12 banks using only a plastic pistol. She was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison. Vanda Lopes, 37, is happily married and has two children. She owns a hairdresser’s in Costa da Caparica and lives a quiet life.
The day she catches her husband, Mário, in bed with another woman, Vanda’s world falls apart. Mário has also betrayed her financially and stolen everything from her. Vanda is penniless and can’t take it anymore. Desperate, she gets a plastic pistol and enters a bank branch. From the moment she pulls off her first robbery, Vanda begins to be investigated by the police. Elisa Gonçalves is a forensic psychologist who is surprised by Vanda and begins to pursue this robber who breaks all the known patterns of this type of crime: Vanda is a woman and acts alone, with a gun and the same black disguise. That’s why she is known as “Black Widow”.
Vanda will be arrested when she makes an emotional mistake: the fact that she is a mother will force her to make a fatal choice… There will be 12 robberies full of adventures and creative thieves that drive the story forward and change Vanda’s life forever.