Powerful secret forces wage ruthless war for complete control over the judicial system. In this conflict, they use the most vile and terrifying methods—from setting a bribe up to open kidnapping of a child and murder. A hidden, all-powerful enemy tries to force the law to fall silent by destroying its fundamental rule: “Everyone is equal before the law and the court.”
Attorney Artem Pavlov handles, perhaps, the hardest case in his practice: he is trying to save the reputation, freedom, and life of his client—judge Oleg Romanov—against whom a bribery case was fabricated. The outcome of the trial over Romanov will determine the fate of the Chairman of the Supreme Court, Krasnov, the lives of several people—and of a little girl.
And when a judge appears before the court—the man who yesterday himself dispensed Justice—shocking secrets come to light…