He who doesn't speak never lies.
A young woman Johanna (Sylvia Hoeks) wants to escape with her husband Ties (Matthias Schoenaerts) from the web of crime that surrounds her.
The harder she tries, the more she gets stuck in fraud, prostitution, manslaughter
and ever murder.
In the 1930's the Brabant[southern province of the netherlands] city of Oss was caught up in a crimewave.
The military police was sent from the north of Oss to free the city of the terror regime of the "Gang of Oss" [Ossche Bende].
When the military police discover sex crimes and fraud even among the local clerics and prominent members of the community, the conflict escalates between the catholic south and the protestant north wich eventually leads to the fall of the Colijn administration - the last operating pre-war administration.
"THE GANG OF OSS" is told from the point of view of Johanna van Heesch, a young upbeat cafe proprietor - daughter of Mien de Snol (Mien the Trollop) and half-sister of mentally handicapped Trees - who is trying to break free from the criminal environment.
Together with her paroled husband Ties she tries to start a better life.
Nevertheless, Ties' uncle Wim de Kuiper, self-declared leader of the gang of Oss, makes Ties pick up his bad habits again quickly.
Ties' relationshipwith Johanna worses and hits rock bottom when he tries to force her into abortion.
To protect her unborn child, Johanna has her husband killed by Jan Greven, aspiring racing cyclist, who hopes, in vain, to win Johanna's love by murdering her husband. Harry den Brock, a relatively well-to-do insurance broker, also appears to offer a way out for Johanna.
By having Ties killed, Johanna gets more and more in the grip of Wim de Kuiper who postulates himself as Johanna's protector.
Nevertheless, Johanna gets into a conflict with him once she realizes that he has her half-sister Trees abused by the local priest.
Once Trees is killed in a tragic accident - or was it criminal intend?- there is nothing left that keeps her in Oss.
Together with Harry den Brock she is planning to escape from Oss but not before she gets hre revenge on Wim ad the prominent members of the community - who Harry also appears to be working for.
At the same time, Johanna is evading the military police that are slowly but surely unraveling the gang's activities and coming closer to solving her husband's murder.
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