Plot Synopsis

Ellen Plainview, a loving and caring working wife and mother, answers the door one afternoon to learn that she is under arrest for attempted murder. She's accused of attacking and beating Fay Walker in a parking garage. She enters a legal nightmare as the evidence against her accumulates until it is overwhelming. Her friends and even her policeman husband begin to doubt her innocence, to the point where even she wonders if she somehow committed the violent horrible crime without remembering it, especially when it turns out that Fay was having an affair with her husband. She meets a young public defender at the courthouse who believes she is innocent and offers to help her in court. Ellen, distrustful of her own lawyer, makes the courageous decision to represent herself no matter the consequences.