Danny Vanhamel, a top gangster in the eighties, is sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for the kidnapping of 'Anthonyke', the eleven-year-old son of industrialist Jan De Clerck. In 2004 he is released early, he renounces crime and starts a new life. In Ex-Gangster Danny looks back on his life as a tough boy, on the robberies of the Securitas money transports, on the kidnapping, on the trial and on his sentence. Ex-gangster gives a unique look at one of the darkest periods for justice and police in Belgian history and searches for an answer to the question of how someone ends up in crime and whether you can ever get out of it.