Forbidden from practicing law, a woman prepares an appeal to overturn the court's decision in this true story of Lidia Poët, Italy's first female lawyer.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Cast:Matilda De Angelis , Eduardo Scarpetta , Pier Luigi Pasino , Sinéad Thornhill , Sara Lazzaro , Dario Aita , Alessia Spinelli , Aldo Ottobrino , Francesco Biscione , Sebastiano Fumagalli , Alessandro Federico , Fabrizio Odetto , Jacopo Crovella , Camille Dugay Comencini , Roberta Mengozzi , Giorgia Spinelli , De Mojana Matteo , Alessio Del Mastro
Lidia Poet graduates from law school and is admitted to the bar. After she takes on a murder of a ballerina, she is disbarred from practicing law because she is a woman--but that does not stop her.
Much to Enrico's chagrin, Lidia agrees to defend an anarchist accused of murder. But the scandal grows deeper than she expected and lands her in trouble.
Lidia and Enrico discover some family secrets when, in an opioid haze, a man from Lidia's past confesses to patricide in her childhood home.
Lidia and Andrea defend a woman accused of poisoning a professor. Lidia and Jacopo succumb to their forbidden desires.
Lidia represents a prostitute accused of murdering her client. This leads her and her brother to a medium, where they hear a voice from the past. Marianna rebels when separated from the boy she loves.
With Jacopo in jail, accused of murdering a prostitute, Lidia takes the case which leads to anarchists and a revenge killing. Also, her appeal reaches the highest court.