Steal Away

This saga is the story of five upstanding church ladies, Stella, Sudy, Redd, Jade, and Blu who are trying to raise money to send young Negro women to college during the great depression by holding bake sales and other fundraisers.  Their latest beneficiary, Tracy Ada, has ideas that are more ambitious.  She wants them to rob a bank.  At the same time, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson are on a bank robbing spree in and around Chicago.  Of course, the ladies are reluctant to do anything that drastic, but when they are turned down at the bank for a loan to send another young woman to college because the bank manager does not think that “colored girls” need an education, the ladies decide to join in Tracy Ada’s scheme.