Gustave Lax

In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.

As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.

한 평범한 여성이 바람을 피우던 남편을 권총으로 살해하려는 사건이 발생한다. 검사인 아담은 이 사건을 맡아 평소처럼 재판을 준비하던 중, 아내이자 변호사인 아만다가 용의자 여성의 변호를 맡았다는 사실을 알게 된다. 화목한 부부였던 두 사람은 이제 법정에서 만나 불꽃 튀는 싸움을 시작한다.