 Young lawyer Milo Meijer s  pro-deo  client André Peters is accused of beating his motherless teenager daughter Thérèse unconscious into hospital, drunk, and not without precedent, this time for intending to marry Yusef, an Iranian who will probably be expelled as an illegal unless he finds a wife. After André lost his temper in court despite Milo s warning, André also admits he occasionally gave her a smack or two, but much less then his dad and never unconscious. Milo s partner is not amused to be landed with his priapic garden gnomes case. When Yusef appears in court badly roughed up by André s racist mates, he can barely convince Milo they did it despite him, or even the lawyer would have deserted him...