Ignoring his politically ambitions chief assistant, the aging DA assigns it to Karen Henning, chief of the trials division, highest ranking woman in the office. Karen is smart, good looking, fiercely independent. She is also married and the mother of two, and she is forced now to cope with the DA’s thwarted chief assistant, with the advances of the handsome detective assigned to her, and with the all-consuming case which has turned out to be far more complicated than anyone suspected, and which now threatens both her marriage and her career.