Prosecutor Turrisi sees the chance of getting a promotion to Rome through this case and is making sure that the process is pushed ahead in great haste.

Manin, who apparently also has a romantic interest in Santini, picks her up from prison and helps her with the first steps in freedom.

When Santini visits her husband, she sees that the supposed new lover is Norma Zeitzler, for whose murder she was convicted.

In a blind rage, she kills the woman and subsequently insists that she can no longer be prosecuted because she has already served the sentence.

Lawyer Manin then decides to defend Luisa Santini and also to reopen the old proceedings, Turrisi acts again as public prosecutor.