The true story of Loreta Gedvilaitė, BARAKUDA weaves together violence and love, desperation and self-acceptance, power and surrender. Loreta, a Soviet Lithuania mob wife, sues her husband's murderer for defamation after he calls her a ‘barracuda’ on national television in 2015. The court procedurally dissects Loreta’s youth - the dangerous love affair, motherhood, status-driven excess - and rules against her. She becomes the first legally established Barracuda of Lithuania - a promiscuous ‘unfamiliai’ temptress of influential men