For more than a half century the Seattle Family Service Centre has provided services for every sector of the community: the homeless who come for comfort; the working parents who use its day-care facility. But the centre also provides complete obstetrical and gynaecological services, including legal abortions. At two o'clock on a chilly February afternoon it becomes the target of a deadly bomb - one eventually responsible for the deaths of over a hundred men, women and children.
Dana McAuliffe, a partner in a prestigious Seattle law firm, is given the daunting task of defending the accused bomber, Corey Dean Latham, a young naval officer. Although Corey's chances of acquittal seem slim, Dana hires her own investigator to challenge the state's evidence. Amid the clamour of extremists from both sides of the abortion issue demonstrating outside the courtroom and using the case to promote their agendas, she begins to see a glimmer of hope for her client.
