Synopsis

The courtroom held a taut silence as the victim, a survivor of a brutal kidnapping and attempted murder, faced her assailant: her own husband. He, in turn, maintained that his actions stemmed from a conviction that she possessed unnatural powers, a belief that bordered on obsession. The proceedings were punctuated by outbursts – first from a judge, consumed by fury, and then again, a second time, when the tension threatened to overwhelm him. The trial promised to be a crucible of human desperati