Judge Irina Polyakova got married and is pregnant. She’s assigned a rather easy, clearly acquitting case—to judge the doctor Ulyana Tikhodolska, who, fleeing from an attacker, killed him. Newspapers write that the woman should be acquitted. In her defense, for the sake of her talented colleague—an obstetrician-gynecologist—signatures were collected by Leningrad doctors. But one of the lay judges digs up something very strange from Ulyana’s past, and the judge starts to waver…