Adam Borowski (Jerzy Stuhr) is an ambitious public prosecutor who secretly lives by his own code of unethical conduct. But while he's able to keep up his public image, his private life is starting to spin out of control. Over the course of one week, Adam is forced to prosecute a number of cases that seem to pose a moral dilemma as each trial highlights his own shortcomings with fidelity, finances and his feelings for his terminally ill mother.