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...