Lara Patrick, a young American attorney, has traveled to Moscow looking for clues to her mother's mysterious death over twenty years ago. She uncovers more questions than answers, and soon becomes a murder suspect herself. Charged with the homicide, Lara gets caught up in the ruthless Russian legal system where the phrase "beyond a reasonable doubt" works against her, where there is no jury, and where from the moment she is arrested she is Presumed Guilty.