Carolina Caroline

Caroline is a gas station attendant in rural Texas. Caroline's father has raised her since her mother abandoned Caroline as an infant. She meets Oliver, a con-artist who runs a short change scam on her employer. They fall in love, and Caroline agrees to travel with Oliver with the goal of reaching South Carolina, where her mother lives. The two engage in scams throughout the South, including small bank robberies. After a robbery, Oliver threatens an employee who sees her disguise with a gun, which creates tension with Caroline. Caroline insists on going directly to South Carolina.

They find Caroline's mother, who is an alcoholic who rejects Caroline. Distraught, Caroline demands that they escalate to larger bank robberies so that they can afford to leave the country. After a robbery goes wrong, they are forced to flee in a stolen car, abandoning the money they had stolen. While they flee, they are pulled over by a police officer. Oliver shoots and kills the officer, which distresses Caroline. The two reconcile in a roadhouse, but police find them and surround the establishment. Oliver fires a gun into the air to create a distraction, allowing Caroline to escape as the police storm the building in reaction to the shots. He then fires in the general direction of the police, committing suicide by cop. Caroline manages to reclaim the lost money, throw the police off her trail, and buy a plane ticket out of the country, but not before pulling one last short change scam on the airport ticket window.