A courtroom crime drama on a par with Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder. A young, highly acclaimed film actress is on trial for allegedly murdering Marc Sterne, the son of a Hollywood studio mogul, Julio Sterne. The evidence against her is mainly circumstantial, yet it's up to the jury to decide if she'll walk the hard walk or not...figuring into the story is the presiding judge, Cliff Rhodes, who has a lot more at stake in the outcome than he ever imagined...then there's Audrey Sterne, the victim's step-mother, and Rhodes's paramour of an earlier time. She is drawn into the fray in ways...