Frank (Paul Newman Paul Newman is acted the role of) is a lawyer, outside the profession, his only hobby is drinking, but drinking is bad, leading to Frank's reputation all the way down. In order to restore his reputation, Frank's friend Mickey (Jack Walden Jack Warden) introduced him to a big case in which a woman fell into a coma due to a medical accident in a church hospital. Frank wanted to help the woman get justice from the hospital. For Frank, this is a rare good job, because he only needs to reach an out-of-court settlement with the defendant to get a lot of compensation, but when he gradually begins to understand the whole story, the sense of justice that arises in his heart makes him decide to pursue the accident to the end. With Frank on one side and defense lawyers backed by big companies on the other, what will happen to this lawsuit?