Plot Summary:At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, known for odd views and methods. She reads Jeanne's journal, documenting René's criminal tendencies. Solange believes him innocent, manipulated into the murder or framed. Odd psychiatrists turn up, including Georges Didier, who runs FBPS, and his rival, Christian, who believes crime originates in a story's taking hold of a person. After the verdict, René and Solange's relationship changes, Georges and his society commit a bizarre act, and the police record Solange's story.
索罗姬(凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰)刚刚失去了自己的儿子,与此同时,她亦结下了一个案子,成为了一个名为雷内(梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰)的年轻人的辩护律师,雷内被控告谋杀了他的姑妈珍妮(凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰)。 在分析了种种的线索之后,索罗姬坚信雷内是无罪的,在索罗姬的不懈努力之下,雷内终于获得了无罪宣判。神秘的精神病医生的出现让这宗案件再度隐入了迷雾之中,乔治(米歇尔·皮寇利 Michel Piccoli 饰)和克里斯蒂(安德烈·瑟韦林 Andrzej Seweryn 饰)亦认为这宗案件并没有就此结束。当一切的秘密都逐渐被呈现在众人面前时,索罗姬是否能够意识到,自己被卷入了一个阴谋之中。