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“As a lawyer all she wanted was the truth. As a daughter all she wanted was his innocence. How well do you really know your father?”

The charge arrives as a letter: Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Hungarian immigrant long settled in America, is accused of war crimes from his years before the move. His daughter Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange), a Chicago defense attorney, takes his case without hesitation, certain the accusers have the wrong man. Costa-Gavras puts a father's name, his daughter's career and her young son Mike (Lukas Haas) on the line before she sees the file.