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Wingwomen begins right in the middle of the action, as Carole (Mélanie Laurent) and Alex, are on a dangerous mission somewhere in Switzerland. While Carole, the elder and more experienced of the two women, is carrying out the more difficult task of stealing diamonds from a facility, Alex (Adèle Exarchopoulos) covers for her from a nearby forested hill, as her expertise is in sniping from a distance. On her way back from the facility with the stolen goods, Carole loses her way in the forest and has to rely on Alex's directions, but the latter is momentarily distracted by a phone call in which her current lover breaks up with her. Every man leaves her after a short while, and the woman's efforts to find love have been failing for a long time. They are also chased by armed drones, which they have to skillfully shoot down in order to escape.

By the time they are back home in Paris and have handed over the stolen diamonds to their contact, Carole is absolutely done with this nefarious life of always having to fear for her safety. Carole and Alex are best friends, and they also stay together. Carole has kept one secret from her friend-that she is six weeks pregnant and is unsure whether she wants to keep the child. The pregnancy is from a casual hookup, and so she has to raise the child by herself. Carole tells Alex that she wants to quit this line of work, and the friend also readily agrees.

However, the employer of the two, a powerful criminal boss known as Godmother (Isabelle Adjani), absolutely refuses to accept such a proposition. Carole and Alex hide in a cabin in the woods, off the grid, so they can hide from the Godmother. Godmother sends assassins to attack their cabin.After some threats from both sides, Carole agrees to carry out one last heist for Godmother, for which she will even be paid a hefty price of two million dollars, and following which she and Alex will retire in peace.

Carole goes to meet with Abner, the man who works as the master planner of all heists for the criminal boss. Abner lays out the exact details of their mission once they reach his house. Carole and Alex are to steal a famous painting named La Grande Odalisque by renowned French artist Martial Raysse. The painting is to be put up for exhibition at a center for the arts on the island of Corsica. Although getting hold of a painting in such an illegal manner is definitely easier when it is at an exhibition center than at a museum, the protagonists also need to get a map of the building in order to steal the painting efficiently. An architectural firm that had recently redesigned the art center building would surely have the blueprints of the place, and so they have to first steal this data as well. Abner gives them a local contact, too, a man named Clarence, who would supply them with all the guns and ammunition needed for the heist.

Along with all of this, the team also now has to add a third member for the position of getaway driver. Alex is immensely upset at this new finding, for she was the one always driving herself and Carole around during missions. Carole's decision to opt for a professional driver instead of her best friend seems to be because of her pregnancy and that Alex is an unsafe driver. The two women go down to the Le Mans racetrack to meet with their new getaway driver, Sam (Manon Bresch), and despite them thinking that Sam would be a man, the driver actually turns out to be a woman who drives race cars professionally.

It does not take very long to convince Sam to join the group, though, since she gets fired by her egoistic male teammate. Together, the three women reach Corsica and settle at a luxury villa that has been arranged for them by Godmother. First, they visit the shop of Clarence (Félix Moati), which looks like a grocery store on the front but is actually a hideout for his successful arms trafficking business. Alex, who is forever in search of love, is immediately smitten by the handsome looks and goofy personality of Clarence, and she puts all efforts into meeting the man again and making him fall for her. Incidentally, Alex's interest in Clarence also gets her into slight trouble since the arms trafficker has many enemies, and one such man intrudes when the two are sharing an intimate moment. As Clarence is knocked out by the attacker, Alex has to fight him all by herself, and she manages to kill him.

During this time, Sam also receives her training from Carole and Alex, since the woman has never held a gun or participated in heists ever before in her life. Some more about her past is also revealed, as she lost her beloved wife only some time ago in a horrific car crash since the wife was a stunt driver. Godmother, who visits Carole secretly, wants her to get rid of Alex and replace her with Sam, but Carole has no intention of breaking up their close-knit trio.

They first have to steal the blueprint of the art center, and Carole sends only Alex and Sam on this mission, deciding to herself to take some rest. At the renovation company's office, Alex once again provides cover from a distance while Sam sneaks in and downloads the blueprints onto a phone. There is slight trouble here as well when the employees return from break, and Alex hits them all with tranquilizer darts. One of the employees still manages to stay up and hit the alarm, making Sam fear getting caught, but ultimately, the plan is carried out successfully.Carole reveals to Alex and Sam that she is pregnant.

Finally, the day of the heist arrives, and the entire team, including Abner, reach the area where the convent with the art center is. The plan is that Abner and his elderly girlfriend would pretend to be hot-dog sellers with their food truck, while they would actually keep a lookout for Carole and Alex, who would go into the building and steal the painting. Sam is given the responsibility of keeping the getaway car ready and waiting very close to the center. However, the entire plan is ruined as a huge shooting team arrives at the exact place, and it is revealed that a music video is being shot at the convent for famous French singer Mylene Farmer.

This sudden revelation has multiple effects, beginning with the fact that Abner and his girlfriend are now swarmed by innumerable customers asking for hot dogs, and they have to make and sell food in order to stick to their cover. To make things worse, Abner drops and spoils the earpiece with which he was communicating with Carole and Alex, making the two women have to work on their own. The shooting party also creates a problem for Sam since they refuse to allow her to park close to the art center, and she has to keep moving the getaway car around. At the most crucial moment, when Carole is carefully cutting out the Grand Odalisque painting from the wall, a man wanders into the place and keeps talking to her irritatingly, without even realizing that a robbery is going on. The three women manage to safely steal the painting and then take it back to Paris in order to hand it over to Godmother.

Carole is seen receiving a call from a man with whom she discusses some secret plans. The three women return to Paris, and Carole goes to meet with Godmother, but she knows very well that the inconsiderate crime boss will not actually let them retire. This is why Carole has a very specific plan, which she has not yet revealed to her friends. As always, Alex hides in the building on the opposite side, ready with her sniper rifle to provide cover for Carole. Sam waits on the street on her motorcycle.

Godmother understands that Alex is readying her sniper rifle, and she threatens Carole that if anything happens to her, the rest of her gang and associates will also kill her. Carole, however, does not pay heed to these threats, and she asks Alex to shoot at the exact positions that she mentions. This immediately kills off the only bodyguard in the room and Godmother as well, and more bloodshed follows. The other guards in Godmother's gang are the first to respond as they run into the room, and Alex shoots them down with her rifle.However, as a big troop of police forces arrives at the place, Carole admits that she will be unable to survive this encounter, and she wants Alex to escape. She mentions how she has paved a way of escape for her dear friend, and she is then seen being shot by the police. As Carole's body, completely covered in a body bag, is taken away, Sam guides Alex towards the roof of the other building and ensures that the best friend manages to escape.

We see Sam visit Alex in her home somewhere far away from any city. Four years have passed since the last events in Paris, and Sam now wants to take Alex somewhere. Despite her initial reluctance, Alex does comply, and she is then taken to a different place where only a small house exists in the middle of vast deserts. Here, a little girl introduces herself as Raoule, and this was the exact name that Alex had decided for Carole's baby. Carole also immediately walks out and greets her friend, revealing that she had not actually died but had been living in hiding for these four years.

The man that Carole had spoken to over the phone must have been the one who had helped her carry out this plan. It is evident that he is extremely powerful, though, as he managed to stage a group of police forces that had entered the building in Paris during the shootout and had faked killing Carole. Had Carole been free and on the outside, Godmother's associates would have surely killed her and Alex out of revenge, and so she had to fake her own death for both their sake. As the three friends have a heartfelt reunion, they decide to raise Raoule together.