A brilliant female attorney in Trieste, after successfully defending a university professor charged with rape, is contacted by him afterwards to initiate a lawsuit against the university, which had been forced to rehire him but kept him on the sidelines. In the meantime, the attorney’s own past came back to haunt her; there were strange, menacing signs that led her to think that her ex-partner, violent and so obsessed with her that he was convicted for stalking, was out there and picking up where he left off.