Nadia and Maxime Laffargue defend Jeremy Dutertre, a young man with a lengthy criminal record accused of shooting a grocer during a robbery. Jeremy, who has made great efforts to get out of delinquency and proclaims his innocence, has a hard time controlling himself against a particularly devious opponent: Attorney General Jacques Kowalski...

Jeanne Vanhoven makes her big comeback to the assizes: she defends, with Maxime, David Kerval, a novelist suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder, accused of the murder of his wife. At the same time, Claire assists Jacqueline Arsena, mother of a young woman killed by Xavier Durieux, a drug addict who has just filed a request for early release. Idriss, for his part, learns that his health has deteriorated considerably...