In the Name of the Italian People

A young woman is found dead, and the trail runs toward a businessman everyone in Rome seems to know. Mariano Bonifazi (Ugo Tognazzi), an obscure magistrate, decides to build a case against the industrialist Lorenzo Santenocito (Vittorio Gassman) and sees it through to court. Dino Risi sets one stubborn official against a man whose wealth and connections he cannot match, and the question is how much Mariano will stake to get there.