One evening, after arguing with his wife, 15-year-old Cheyenne's father disappears. The teenager asks her mother about it, who initially talks about a heart attack then contradicts herself ...

Michel Racine is a feared president of Assize Court, as strict with himself as with others. Everything changes when he meets again Ditte when she's selected as a juror in a criminal trial over which he presides.

To save his wife, a jeweler kills his robber.